Consider…

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Is there such a thing as Hot and/or Cold?
Is there such a thing as Light and/or Dark?

Several years ago, a friend of mine who worked in commercial air conditioning was explaining to me how air conditioners work. He told me there was no such thing as cold. What? He said the way an air conditioner works is by extracting the heat from the air and you are left with air- less heat (cold air). He said “cold” is the name we give something to measure the degree of less heat (I hope I haven’t gotten too confusing).
So, you have air (cold because it has no heat), and then you have heat (that comes from a source). Heat can overcome cold, cold cannot overcome heat.

The same is true of light. There is darkness, no presence of light, and there is light. Light can exist in and overcome darkness. Darkness cannot exist in and/or overcome light. You can’t increase darkness to any degree to overcome light.

God is light. Sin is darkness. God’s light overcomes sinful darkness. For people to say “if God created all things, than He created sin” is erroneous. Sin is the lack of the presense of God.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. –Gen 1:1-5

4 “ Listen to Me, My people; and give ear to Me, O My nation: For law will proceed from Me, and I will make My justice rest as a light of the peoples. –Isaiah 51:4

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” -John 8:12