““Doubts crept up on them unawares, seeping to the surface or erupting without warning. At the least, the language of temptation tells us that although this phenomenon was widespread, it was no sort of movement or party. If these doubters learned their doubts from other people, they were not conscious of it. I have found no accounts of being tempted into unbelief by others. The recurrent fear that no one else had ever had such terrible thoughts no doubt reflects the experience of feeling God’s absence, but it does also suggest that these doubters reached their doubts without outside assistance.””
