What We Don’t Know

The brilliant British Author, Malcolm Muggeridge, once said that a very amusing book could be written about how unbelievers try to explain away the fact that people are still being converted to Christianity. Not a day goes by without people all over the world committing themselves to Christ. When late in life he was converted, Muggeridge’s friends and others offered all kinds of explanations of why he had done so. Some said he had gone soft in the head. Some said he was an old clown who needed a new act. Some said that having enjoyed sin in his earlier years, he was now changing his ways because he was no longer capable of carrying on like he did before. And so every imaginable reason, however far-fetched, was suggested — except the correct one. And the correct one was that he became absolutely convinced of the truth of the Faith that has been making Christians for two thousand years. As Muggeridge himself has written, he…