These things cannot be compensated for by anything in life, but the negative Christian spends his life in a frantic but futile pursuit of happiness through the details of life. Darkness can bring about neuroses and psychoses - anxiety. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Darkness results in a frantic search for happiness through details of life, or through some form of sublimation. Darkness leads to slavery to the details of life.
Darkness leads to apostasy, erroneous thinking, false doctrine in the soul.
Darkness is accompanied by a lack of capacity to love, leading to pseudo-love towards God, family, the community. Disorientation to the plan of God is a result of darkness. A Christian can live his whole life on this earth and always be out of phase with God's plan for his life. This can go on indefinitely as long as the believer refuses to hear and believe the Word of God. The Greek word describes someone who is ignorant of the content of something that he is supposed to know.