If darkness and light are both of one nature different only in seeming, for each one arrose from the SOURCE...

Question

the source being God, can darkness be "bad" or just another form of polarity we are to experience while here on earth?

Answer 1

the darkness helps us grow as people. the depression, the criminal deeds, the lies, the pain, etc. i think it helps us become better people and turn our lives around. i think sometimes it doesn't help though. i think sometimes people can never understand why the darkness was brought into their lives. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. the darkeness isn't bad bad. i think its used to put us in the right path, to help us. like i've dealt with a lot of sadness, betrayal, disease, and such. but in the shadows and the dark, i learned to love myself, and to help better my current situation. MALCOLM X lived in the dark too. he was a criminal then to become a world leader. a respected man. it just really depends. some people use the tragedies to do better, and others don't. its on the individual.

Answer 2

Cute run-around on the whole light/darkness polarity question. There are, of course, certain problems associated with your said observation.

Light, obviously, is meant to be that which is 'good', unless of course we are talking about atomic bomb sunshine or simply standing within a certain distance from the sun itself, at which point your body simply combusts into ash and energy particles. Last time I checked, that was a 'bad' thing.

So, trying to extrapolate truth from a metaphor by taking it literally is, in effect, going to produce complex and/or crazy results, because no one is going to know what is good or bad.

That whole 'seperating the light from the dark' was not so much moral as it was metaphoric. Simple division or seperation is the first step towards transformation: can't grow a giraffe if you are having problems creating the simple cells that become the building blocks of it.

And light and darkness are not simply 'different only in seeming.' One might as well say a crappy made suit is not all that much different from a well-tailored suit, since they have so much in common. The first seperation, into light and dark, was meant to point out that what makes something or someone different from something or someone similar makes that difference significant to name it, makes that difference the fundamental first step in understanding what something is.

It is better to say that the sum of light and dark, the first distinction, is what makes up the original whole, like a pie cut into two. It takes both slices to make the pie whole, so a pie is whole even when it is cut into pieces (the sum of the pieces constitute a whole pie.) Those pieces are not simply some 'optical' trick of the light or dark.

Answer 3

No, but a good question.

The ONE source is light.

Without light is darkness, nothing.

Only demented minds think God is the source of both light and darkness.

However God does use the negative to fulfill His plan, which is ultimately positive.

Joh 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
Joh 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Answer 4

"Woe unto them that... put darkness for light...Isaiah 5:20. Mistaking darkness for light has brought us "woe," which in Hebrew, means "misery."

God created darkness, but He did not form (make) it:
(WE ARE TALKING SPIRITUAL HERE)
" I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil." Isaiah 45:7.

God created evil and darkness, meaning He created the idea or concept, the POSSIBILITY for it to be made or formed. Mankind has formed this spiritual darkness within himself. We did this by accepting false perceptions (lies) as truth, putting darkness for light. We rid ourselves of this spiritual darkness we have formed through the creation of a new (spiritual) heaven and earth. This new creation is called the "new Jerusalem," a spiritual city that symbolizes a new state of being, in which there is no darkness, "no night." Revelation 21:1,2,25

Answer 5

All of the pulpit thumping aside, both terms are relative only to conditions present to the perception of a mind capable of using senses provided by nature. Neither in and of itself have any meaning except in their relation to the requirements of the existence of life. Human or otherwise. The unreasoned fear of the dark which was born in the cave and reinforced by the existance of predators out there in the night combined with no answers of how to cope with it is the birth of your God. In the 8,000,000 years of human existance this omnipotent monument to ignorance has given no answer except "believe". If you believe this entity truely loves you then darkness must be good. Why else would he keep you there?