It has been a religious rumors that god/God made all things, like the light and darkness. If so, before the thing called "light" and "darkness" was created, what then was the state of condition? Common sense provides that there could only be darkness in the absence of light. What do you think?
2007-11-10 16:22:35 · 39 answers · asked by pwd.alforque 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
One doesn't create darkness, it is simply the absence of light.
2007-11-10 16:28:44 · answer #1 · answered by icekey87 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the thing is... God created everything (excluding sin, as sin is a lack of faith and love, therefore it doesn't count as something). So that means that He created the darkness. And the light. But before He had created anything at all, there was nothing. There was no state of condition. Only emptiness.
2007-11-12 09:40:09 · answer #2 · answered by AbCad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your question absolutely provides a good way to show that God DOES exist.
God is Creation... plain and simple...
Our thoughts can create.. as we see on these types of websites where one can allow one to create such thoughts. God created us in His likeness...
We have the same processing that God is about...
Biblically stating... the Bible says that "in the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth" .. So it was a physical "matter" first.
Then after that, God separated the light from the darkness after He said "let there be light"...
So yes.. darkness was before the light...
Think of this... darkness = without knowledge...
light = with knowledge...
darkness = "society views" of bad things here on earth.
light = "society views" of good things here on earth.
ETC...
2007-11-10 16:42:52 · answer #3 · answered by oceanremix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I disagree, there is no darkness without light. You can't actually see darkness. Darkness only becomes apparent when you have a knowledge of light to compare it with. without light there is no sight, how can you "see" darkness? Common sense breaks down when you don't consider all of the variables. Since there is no sight without light, no one could "see" the darkness. There was only an absence of sight. Your question only makes sence if you stipulate that it is possible to consciously feel the absence of an experience that one has never had. Before there was an automobile, no one missed having one. Before there was light, there was no experience of darkness, because there was no sight, no knowledge of what was missing. Some concepts have no meaning without the presence of their opposites.
2007-11-10 16:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by Raul D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it's a waste of time to try and think logically about an illogical invention of primitive people.
Of course a lack of light is darkness, and without a source of light the darkness would already exist - it's like saying god created vacuum.
2007-11-10 16:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes God created everything. There isn't a word for what there was before because it was humanity that created language, and dark and light is all we've ever known.
2007-11-10 16:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by cdearing79 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh Boy, your in trouble here...
First, darkness is defined as the absence of light! If there was only one color, what would you call it?
God/god is, now substitute the word Energy for the one you don't like. Does it work now?
2007-11-10 16:29:48 · answer #7 · answered by Dr Sex and Soul 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is simply this. There cannot be dark unless there is an alternative to dark. There cannot be cold unless there is an alternative to cold. There would not be males unless there was an alternative to males. There could not be nothingness unless there was "somethingness".
When the Creator created light, it now defined darkness. When the Creator created heat, it now defined coldness. In asexual species there is no male or female. If you create one you define the other.
That is why it is correct to say the Creator created both darkness and light.
2007-11-10 16:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, Biblicly speaking, its hard to really answer that question since we as humans have a creation and an end. it is stated in the bible that god created a division between light and darkness. so to answer your question, yes common sense says darkness, but really its impossible to know.
2007-11-10 16:28:18 · answer #9 · answered by Xavier F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. In the beginning there was nothing but darkness. What caused the spark that brought forth the light probably can't be answered and for the religious is a matter of faith.
2007-11-10 16:27:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋