Proverbs 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
To a mind that has been trained strictly on logical or scientific modes of thought, to pray with one’s eyes closed, to an unseen God, is pretty absurd. And for a person who subjects everything to reason, believing and hoping for things which cannot be seen, heard or proven, is like wishing upon a star. Hence the reason why devils have honed their skills to specialize in logical modes of thought, for they’ve discovered by experience that logic appeals to the finite mind, and for that reason, many individuals inadvertently fall a prey to their devices.
Eve was taken down using logical modes of thought, because if God said that if she were to touch or eat of the forbidden fruit she would surely die, and she did so and nothing seemed to happen, then logic is the way to go, as far as Eve was concerned.
[Patriarchs & Prophets pp 55] The serpent plucked the fruit of the forbidden tree and placed it in the hands of the half-reluctant Eve. Then he reminded her of her own words, that God had forbidden them to touch it, lest they die. She would receive no more harm from eating the fruit, he declared, than from touching it.
Genesis 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!