With respect to other functions of the soul namely the will and emotion, Satan is more limited and cannot act directly on them unless he has gained a foothold in them in some way. We can clearly see how the powers of darkness align themselves against the human mind and how it is peculiarly susceptible to the attacks of Satan.
All this clearly shows that man’s mind is the scene of battle where evil spirits are in conflict with God. Many thoughts are stored in these rebel strongholds and the Christian must take them captive to the obedience of Christ. He describes the mind that the enemy has occupied as something that this enemy had to have previously conquered in battle. In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, the Apostle Paul compares human arguments and reasoning to strongholds of the enemy. The human mind is a battlefield where the conflict rages for the conquest of this fortress. The mind and the spirit of man are like fortresses that evil spirits yearn to capture. According to the Bible, the human mind is unusual in that it constitutes a battlefield where Satan and his evil spirits contend against the truth and against the believer.
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