Darkness and Light
Hot and Cold
God and Satan
Many believe these to be equal forces, that one cannot live without the other. Or they believe God created evil. This is a great deception. A deception that had brought misery, confusion, and spiritual darkness to trillions.
Modern scientists know they cannot make something colder than absolute zero. The zero means heat, in other words, absolutely no heat.
Darkness seems to wax and wane like the daylight, as if it were a battle between them. Darkness is not a color, it is the absence of color. In clothing, white clothes reflect all colors. Yellow shirts absorb all colors but yellow. But black absorbs all light, so we see no color, therefore it is an absence of light. Darkness is not a force. It is a lack of force. Not all the darkness in the world or universe could snuff out the light of one tiny candle.
Evil is not a force unto itself. It is a lack of the Light of Christ. It is the lack of goodness. When a man has turned away from what is good, the only option left is evil. You can do only one or the other, there is no grey area. He does not like the light, so he turns to the dark, not understanding, or refusing to understand, that light could follow you and illuminate your life if you would only invite it, but knowing nonetheless that he can remove it from his life by choice.
God and Satan are not equal persons. They never were and never could be. When Satan goes into the darkness and avoids the light, he avoids any chance at bettering himself. He chooses to deny the Light of Christ and has no other option but to do evil. You cannot live in darkness and be expected to see, to feel, to perceive in any way anything good. This is Spiritual darkness. This, by his will and enlightened choice, is his fate now and forevermore throughout the eternities.
God is an agent of Light, Truth, Enlightenment, Love, Knowledge, and is all good and all knowing. It is our choice to follow His wisdom to raise our state from mere mortal creatures to exalted beings; it is our choice because we are free agents, to do as we please. Our right to choose our destiny we have fought to keep beyond the time that we can remember. It is called agency: it is not free! We fight to keep it daily, and it is the most dear thing to our souls.
Darkness is an absence of light. Cold is an absence of heat. Evil is an absence of good. Satan and his followers are an absence, by choice, of the Light of God and Christ.
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair and his beard cut as always. He started to have a good conversation with the barber who attended him.
They talked about so many things and various subjects. Suddenly, they touched the subject of God.
The barber said: "Look man, I don't believe that God exists as you say."
"Why do you say that?" asked the client.
"Well, it's so easy; you just have to go out in the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh, tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't think of loving a God who permits all of these things."
The client stopped for a moment thinking, but he didn't want to respond so as to cause an argument. The barber finished his job and the client went out of the shop. Just after he left the barbershop he saw a man in the street with a long hair and beard (it seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut and he looked so untidy).
Then the client again entered the barber shop and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say they don't exist?" asked the barber. "Well I am here and I am a barber."
"No!" the client exclaimed. "They don't exist because if they did there would be no people with long hair and beard like that man who walks in the street."
"Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do not come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed the client. "That's the point. God does exist, what happens is people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
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