I’ve been reading - well, re-reading – a lot of George MacDonald lately. Here’s a gem from a sermon he gave in Edinburgh in 1885, which perfectly sums up the way in which so many Christians forget that it’s not about theological exactitude, it’s about discipleship.
I do not desire to prove any doctrine, if it were the truest under the sun, to your brain or intellect. That I should account to be but labor lost; for a man may believe all the doctrines of the Bible with his intellect, and be only nearer Satan for it. We can learn what is true only by knowing Him who is the Truth. If we know Christ the whole sphere of human knowledge opens to our view. Christ is the door into everything man can know aright. This is true even in matters of science. If a man knows Christ he stands on a rock of vantage from which the whole plain of truth can be descried.