Val Kilmer: “It didn’t matter in Jesus’ day whether the patient believed. It doesn’t matter today. Love doesn’t care about our tiny human thoughts. That’s how I understand it anyway.” | Image: Facebook/Val Kilmer
Hollywood actor Val Kilmer is attributing his recent recovery from oral cancer to his faith in the love of Jesus. According to Kilmer, “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.”
Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science
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.” Eddy was a lifelong student of the Bible who turned completely to God after she experienced a critical injury in 1866.
“As she read accounts of Jesus’ swift, powerful healings, a new sense of God, Spirit, as the only reality flooded her thought and healed her. Impelled to understand the principle behind this experience, she continued to search for and find in the Bible the underlying laws of God that would form the basis of her teaching and practice of Christian Science,” the website explains. Read the full story…. christiantoday.com
In this clip from VAL, we see Val Kilmer meeting his daughter, Mercedes. Val Kilmer has been documenting his life through film and video for over 40 years. He has thousands of hours of home movies, and has taken on iconic roles in popular films such as Batman Forever and Top Gun. This documentary from Amazon Studios provides a closer look at his life.
Amazon Studios released VAL in theaters on July 23, 2021 and will release the documentary on Prime Video on August 6, 2021.
Kilmer is a bona fide movie star — and it’s not often we get such an intensely personal glimpse of the progression of a career in the spotlight, courtesy of what is essentially home movies. The narration by his sound-alike son, Jack, makes it feel all the more intimate…
Kilmer has been battling throat cancer since 2015 and underwent a tracheotomy that has made it difficult for him to speak. Mercedes and Jack said their father is currently doing well and has seen the documentary about his life…
Val Kilmer was born in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Swanette (Ekstadt) and Eugene Dorris Kilmer, who was a real estate developer and aerospace equipment distributor. His mother, born in Indiana, was from a Swedish family, and his father was from Texas…
The youngest student ever admitted to the drama department at Juilliard, Kilmer made his feature debut in the comedy Top Secret!, which he followed up with Real Genius and his breakout role as the Iceman in Tony Scott’s Top Gun, opposite Tom Cruise.
Other memorable roles include Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s The Doors, the title character in Batman Forever, Doc Holliday in Tombstone, and Simon Templar in The Saint. His other starring roles include Michael Mann’s Heat, with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; True Romance, directed by Tony Scott; Ron Howard’s Willow; At First Sight; and Thunderheart.
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