Devout Christian Scientist and actor Val Kilmer is attributing his recent recovery from oral cancer to his faith in the love of Jesus. Responding to a question about what he wanted people to know about having and beating cancer in a Reddit AMA Q&A session Wednesday, the 57 year old opened up about the role of his faith as a Christian Scientist. “I am very grateful for all the prayers and good thoughts from around the world. People that know I am a Christian Scientist make the
assumption that I have somehow endangered myself. But many, many people have been healed by prayer throughout recorded history. And many, many people have died by whatever was modern medicine,” Kilmer said.Mary Baker Eddy discovered and founded Christian Science, according to the Christian Science website. The faith appreciates God as “infinite love, and so invariably good that a clear glimpse of this through prayer has power to heal, redeem, and restore anyone.” READ MORE
Christian Scientist Val Kilmer does not have the true Jesus Nor do they think they have eve sinned . .The Biblical truth they reject Jesus is God who came in the flesh .They reject again they need to be forgiven of sin .They are works based group .They claim evils such as disease, death, and sin cannot be a part of fundamental reality…. They are folks false group a cult .They are not Biblical Christians .https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0059/0059_01.asp
While I do not necessarily agree with the Christian Science religion, I do believe God has healed Val Kilmer. The Bible teaches that there are some who are closer to the Kingdom than we realize. Many Christians will say that people like Val Kilmer and other Christian Scientists are not true believers. But I have met a lot of Christians who are further away from Christ than Christian Scientists.
Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.[n 2] It was developed in 19th-century New England by Mary Baker Eddy, who argued in her book Science and Health (1875) that sickness is an illusion that can be corrected by prayer alone. The book became Christian Science’s central text, along with the Bible, and by 2001 had sold over nine million copies.[4]
Eddy and 26 followers were granted a charter in 1879 to found the Church of Christ, Scientist, and in 1894 the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, was built in Boston, Massachusetts.[5] Christian Science became the fastest growing religion in the United States, with nearly 270,000 members by 1936, a figure that had declined by 1990 to just over 100,000.[6] The church is known for its newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which won seven Pulitzer Prizes between 1950 and 2002, and for its Reading Rooms, which are open to the public in around 1,200 cities.[ Christian Science as a return to “primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.”[8] There are key differences between Christian Science theology and that of other branches of Christianity.[9] In particular, adherents subscribe to a radical form of philosophical idealism, believing that reality is purely spiritual and the material world an illusion.[10] This includes the view that disease is a mental error rather than physical disorder, and that the sick should be treated not by medicine, but by a form of prayer that seeks to correct the beliefs responsible for the illusion of ill health.[11]
The church does not require that Christian Scientists avoid all medical care—adherents use dentists, optometrists, obstetricians, physicians for broken bones, and vaccination when required by law—but maintains that Christian-Science prayer is most effective when not combined with medicine.[12] Between the 1880s and 1990s the avoidance of medical treatment led to the deaths of several adherents and their children. Parents and others were prosecuted for, and in a few cases convicted of, manslaughter or neglect.[13]