e believes because he understands, and in spiritual things he
understands because he believes.

In drawing this contrast between mind and heart, however, it is fully
recognized that the term "heart," in much if not all of Scripture, stands
for the whole personality, including intellect, emotion and will. But it is
also a fact that this term stands for that certain =attitude= of the whole
personality toward God through His Word in which one believes and receives
His Word without question, even though it may not be understood, rather
than insisting on understanding it in order to believe it.

Paul says by inspiration in First Corinthians 1:17 to 2:16 that =mental=
capacity, even of the highest excellence, when exercised by itself, is
utterly incapable of apprehending spiritual truth in any degree whatever.
And Christ says that it is with the =heart= that man believes unto
righteousness. This defines that attitude of the whole personality which
accepts the Word of God on faith without necessarily understanding it, and
which gives evidence of acceptance by such a whole-hearted surrender to it
as will eventuate in a life of righteousness.

Then in other Scriptures we find that a life of righteousness, according to
the divine standard, is based on right relations with God in Christ through
faith in His shed blood, through whose incoming and indwelling life, in
response to such a faith, the one who receives it will normally live in
right relations with his fellow men. That is, it is a righteousness that is
obtained by =believing=, not attained by =working=. It is received, not
achieved.

The use of the term "heart," therefore, in Scripture, means that certain
attitude of the whole personality toward God through His Word which the
exercise of the intellect apart from, and unfounded on, faith makes
impossible.

It is precisely this distinction in faculties that Christ's formula
requires. For it was =spiritual= truth, not natural, of which He spoke when
He said, "=If= any man wills to do, he shall =know=." To work by this
formula requires the exercise of faith. For faith is that attitude of the
heart toward the doing of God's will which is evidenced in =willing to do=
that will, no matter what it costs nor where it leads. This is the first
step of faith. For faith is both an attitude and an act, the genuineness of
which is proven by an activity. That is, it is an attitude of willingness
toward the will of God, an act of surre