light cannot create dark, good cannot create evil.
Romans 7:7-24 [NASB]
7 What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET." 8 But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin [is] dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; 10 and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; 11 for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. 13 Therefore did that which is good become [a cause of] death for me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be shown to be sin by effecting my death through that which is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. 14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I [would] like to [do,] but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want [to do,] I agree with the Law, [confessing] that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good [is] not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?
Are you aware that in physics, "darkness" does not exist. Think about it for a moment.
- How would you measure the amount of "darkness" in a room?
- How would you capture "darkness" to measure it?
"Darkness" does not exist. It is an abstract concept defined by the lack of light. Light exists, so you can capture photons and measure how much "Light" is in a room. The closer that a room gets to "zero light", the "darker" it appears.
If "Light" did not exist, then the very concept of "darkness" (the absence of light) would be meaningless. So the simple fact that LIGHT exists, by virtue of the fact that it exists, defines DARKNESS. Light needs to do NOTHING to create Darkness except to exist.
God exists and IS GOOD by virtue of His very existence (just like Light). As the existence of LIGHT defines the absence of Light as "Darkness" ... so the existence of GOOD (God) defines the absence of Good as "Evil".
As LIGHT creates "darkness" and HEAT creates "cold", so GOOD creates "evil" ... simply by existing.
- GOOD is "towards God"
- EVIL is "away from God"
Two opposite directions created by one common reference point.