by Benn Adhon

Created on: December 20, 2008

Let us approach this subject from a different angle. The Bible clearly states that God is light and in him is no darkness. This statement places God in a sphere where there is no alternatives, there are no grey areas. If God is pure light then nothing that contains darkness will be able to enter his being. Let me explain.

Imagine yourself in a room with no window and source of light except for a single light bulb hanging from the center of the roof. You find yourself in this room with the light turned of. The darkness is so thick that you cannot see your hand in front of your eyes. There is not a single speck of light anywhere in the room. Now the light is turned on, in an instant the room is flooded with light and your eyes sting from the sudden brightness. The question you have to ask at this point is: what happened to the darkness? Is it destroyed or is it just gone? For where there is light there shall be no darkness.

Now let us pull this thought into the Christian realm and being born again. If a man acts outside of God he is acting in darkness. This statement is hard to hear but it is the truth nonetheless. God himself is light, so if we want to know what the building blocks of light are, we have to take a close look at God and what the bible tells us about him. We know that God is love, a perfect judge, peace, the creator and son and so on. These are all the big things that we know about God. What about the small things like the Ten Commandments that he gave to his people? These are a blueprint of being like him. The word teaches us that we have to be holy because God is holy. His commandments are a manual to holiness, and holiness simply means to be set apart. The last time I checked light is quite apart from darkness. For this reason any man stepping outside the instructions of the manual are stepping outside the light of God. The bible calls this stepping outside the light of God sin.

Any man that lives on the planet earth knows that there is evil on this planet. All we have to do is switch on the television and we will see the reality of evil. Now in all religious system in the world evil is linked to darkness. Christianity is no different. Mankind makes the mistake to believe that darkness is only the big things, like murder and rape etc. Stealing is not such a big deal anymore, you can steal a pen from work and it will be laughed at and even justified. The truth of light has been watered down to an impression of light. What we have to understand

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