The Spirit of Disbelief

“Whereunto shall I liken the men of this generation” ─ that is, unbelievers? [Luke7:31] If the Lord Himself seems to be uncertain about this question, so much more reason we have to wonder about the spirit of disbelief in people.

Is it at all possible to go dead against overwhelming evidence? Yet unbelievers do just that. No wonder that Satan is doing the same: his very name means the adversary. As the adversary of truth and goodness, he knows very well that God exists, that God will judge and condemn him, that doom is awaiting him ─ and still he persists in being an adversary, for no other reason than evil itself, thus making his own fate yet more certain.

Isn’t it the same militant spirit of godlessness which drives unbelievers? At any rate, given our knowledge of a human soul and its energies, given the self-evident foundations of faith, disbelief is plainly inexplicable ─ just as inexplicable as the voluntary submission of a sinner to his sin when he knows for sure that the sin is ruining him.

And yet another stunning dilemma: It is only unbelievers and those possessed by passions who deny the existence of Satan and evil spirits! Their most devoted supporters, as one would expect them to be, denounce them altogether. Those who are in the dark, love darkness — unbelievers have set up the mock-science of the human soul which pretends to explain our moral, spiritual world in material terms, free from involvement and influence of the spirits of evil.