Thoughts on ''Fact vs. Truth''

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a Scriptural scholar starts me thinking with this little article, and I want to see if your thoughts match mine ... here's the article: "Fact vs. Truth "Jesus commanded us to operate in the same 'God kind of faith' He has. He who did it would have the same results. After all, it's His faith that's in us. He put it there. "That being the case, how do we deal with the fact that so many Christians are being defeated by sickness, poverty and every other kind of problem? By understanding that those defeats are "fact," but they are not "truth." "You see, facts can be changed. Truth can't. Truth supersedes fact. Spiritual law supersedes natural, physical law. "The law of gravity, for example, is a fact. But there is a higher law than the law of gravity. Those in the aeronautical industry know it as the law of lift. If you do certain things--make an airplane, build the wing right and engine powerful enough and so on--you'll be able to put the law of lift into motion and make an airplane fly. "How does that happen? Does gravity cease to be a fact? No. The law of lift simply supersedes it. "In the same way, sickness and disease are facts. But those facts can be superseded by the truth in Isaiah 53:5, "With [Jesus'\ stripes we are healed." It's a truth that can never be changed. What's more, if you'll apply that truth, it will overcome sickness every time! Truth applied changes facts. "Applying it. That's the key. You can put on your finest traveling clothes, pack your luggage and go sit down in a perfectly good airplane ... but you won't get 6 inches off the ground unless somebody turns on the engines and begins to put the law of lift into motion. "What we need to do is apply our faith just like Jesus did. We need to learn to supersede our natural circumstance by activating the supernatural law of faith. So apply the truth to your facts today. Speak Isaiah 53:5 to your body. Speak Philippians 4:19 to your needs. Speak Isaiah 54:13 over your children. And watch the truth change the facts!" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+53%3A5%2C+Philippians+4%3A19%2C+Isaiah+54%3A13&version=NIV And I understand what the writer is getting-at, but it's not true that "the facts get changed." But his audience is supposed to believe the facts changed ... it reminds me of amateur magic-tricks, where 'the audience' (usually a son or daughter or niece or nephew) is supposed to believe the coin disappeared from the grown-up's hand & reappeared behind their ear. And--until they learn all the facts about the trick--those first few facts remain "the facts." On the aeronautics ... I'm reminded of the truth about 'orbiting the Earth'---you're not "flying around the Earth," you're "falling toward the Earth, but missing."