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(Phil. 3, 8–19; Luke 7, 31–35) “To whom shall I compare the people of this kind?” (Luke 7:31), i.e. unbelievers? If the Lord makes this question as if in bewilderment, is it not all the more fitting for us to be perplexed about the manifestations of unbelief? It would seem, how to go against all-round evidence? - and yet they go. That Satan resists is not surprising; his name is this: the opponent of truth and goodness clearly sees that God exists, that He will judge him and condemn him, that execution is already prepared for him, and everything goes against him, and for no other reason than evil and, therefore, to his own great destruction. Is it not this spirit of fighting against God that also possesses non-believers? At least according to the concepts that we have about the soul and its actions, unbelief, despite the evidence of the foundations of faith, is inexplicable, just as the sinner’s slavery to sin is inexplicable when he clearly learns that sin is destroying him. And what a contradiction! Only unbelievers and passion-lovers reject the existence of Satan and unclean spirits. Those who would most need to stand up for them completely abandon them. Isn’t this science from them themselves? The dark ones love darkness and are taught to say that they do not exist and that in the moral world everything is built by itself, without their intrigues and deceit. You might be interested in: