Why do religious people associate light and darkness to good and evil?

Question

Didn't their god create darkness too? Is the serenity of night evil?

Answer 1

You ask a good question. I imagine it is partly because before electricity the coming of daylight was a great relief from the terrors of the night, including prowling animals in primitive times. According to tradition, referred to in "Hamlet," a ghost disappears with the coming of dawn. The association of Halloween and night and its terrors goes back centuries. In the mystical tradition, the questing individual experiences a dark night of the soul before spiritual revelation--associated with light---breaks in on it. In Zoroastrianism, the ancient religion of Persia, however, light and dark, good and evil are equal forces prevailing in the world. I think the idea of light and darkness as good and evil has been revised in modern times. Nietzsche, for instance, wished to go beyond good and evil. Some poets far prefer night to day as associated with the imagination and the depths of the unconscious. For them, night and light rhyme. But the conventional view is captured in the Biblical saying, "It is better to light a candle than it tis to curse ths darkness." In "Genesis" God says, "Let there be light" and there was light: the concept is central to Creation.

Answer 2

No it just a metaphor because in the Bible God says we are the Light of the world and most things from that time to now were done at night since God did say something about a "theif in the night" and most people are not afraid in the light than at night especially since the movie Darkness Falls

Answer 3

because evil likes to hide and not be seen so the best place for this is in the dark. when you do something you know is not right you normally don't do it out in the open where all can see it you hide it it the shadows.
and yes God did create the darkness but not for evil. that all together is for another question.

Answer 4

Like a couple of people who have already said this here:

Light is the presence of something..whereas darkness is the lack of light.

Just like that, if the human does not do good, he or she will be inclined to do evil because evil results from the lack of good.

Peace out

Answer 5

Yes God created light & darkness, that is in Genesis, But the Light & darkness you are trying to point out, but don't know how, Is that The Light Is understnading the word of God, & darkness is Not understanding the word of God,

Answer 6

whilst such works have been penned via their human authors, there became little if any synthetic lighting fixtures fixtures different than candles, torches and lanterns. evening became very dark and intensely mysterious as one ought to no longer see properly what became there. Such finally ends up interior the human mind's eye working better than somewhat wild in many circumstances. Darkness is likewise utilized in those works metaphorically and in assessment to the theory that god is the mild. Such works ought to not at all be interpreted actually. regardless of the undeniable fact that their literal meaning might have had an application on the time of their unique transmission, that element has long on account that handed and such is now no longer desirable. In maximum circumstances, the authors not at all meant their works to be so interpreted as a literal interpretation finally ends up in each and every physique being damned and condemned. Namaste.

Answer 7

Ephesisians 6 v 17, 18
2 CORINTHIANS, 4 V 3- 6
Ephesians 5 v 6 - 14 ( see verse 12 )
! john 1 v 5- 7

Answer 8

Because evil prefers the cover of darkness.
And Jesus said we are the Light of this world.

Answer 9

No, it's just a metaphor. Most bad things happen at night. People hide in the darkness when they do crimes, as not to be seen. Most people are not doing good things at 3 am.

Answer 10

Only evil walks in the shadow of Darkness