What is faith?”
What is faith?”
That one was easy. “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“Yeah. And what is the spiritual state of the faithful?”
“Um . . . love and acceptance. I think.”
“And what is the opposite of faith?”
That was tougher—a real hairball, in fact. Like one of those damned reading-achievement tests. Pick a, b, c, or d. Except here you didn’t even get the choices. “Disbelief?” he ventured.
“No. Not disbelief but unbelief. The first is natural, the second willful. And when one is in unbelief, David, what is that one’s spiritual state?”
He thought about it, then shook his head. “I don’t know.”
“Yes you do.”
He thought about it and realized he did. “The spiritual state of unbelief is desperation.”
