Donald MacKay on Christian Belief
The basis of a Christian conviction of the truth of his faith is not that he has solved an intellectual riddle, but that he has come to know a living Person — the Person of Jesus Christ. It is his new relationship with God that makes the doctrine ring true, not the other way round. The reason that so many of us lack this conviction is, I think, not that the evidence is not available, but that we look for the wrong kind of evidence in the wrong way. We look for facts and arguments, instead of being prepared to be met by a Person.
(Donald MacKay, The Open Mind, Leicester, UK, IVP, 1988, p. 17)
Until his death in February, Donald M. MacKay (1922-1987) was Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Keele University in Staffordshire, England. He founded the Department of Communication and Neuroscience at Keele in 1960, which has become a research institute of international standing.
Brecht Van Neste
on April 18th, 2011
Thank you for this post. I believe in God but there s no way my mind can understand Him, justify what my heart believes. that makes it hard at times, because my mind often does not agree with what the bible says. so i find myself in a dilemma… do I search for God until my mind is convinced or do I choose now to submit my mind to what my heart experienced ?