Is the contradiction not seen?
Genesis 1:3-4
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
The light was called good. What was the darkness called?
Genesis 1:16-18
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.
Separating the light from the dark, illuminating the darkness, and separating the light from the darkness was called good.
The op states, "
darkness is not evil," further claiming "
the" darkness, "
represents strength, purity, peace, rest, power, vastness, and fluidity," and it bases these comments on two selected, selectively used
proof-texted verses rather than an examination of whole scripture. When the whole of scripture is examined then most mentions of darkness prove not to be good, nor do they portray darkness and strength, purity, peace, rest, power, vastness (other than as an example of evil's vastness), or fluidity. The words "
dark," "
darkness," and "
darkened" occur over 200 times in the Bible (using the NAS) and estimated78% of them are examples where darkness is not good (
I sampled 50 randomly selected verses twice. About 6% were benign observation it was dark out, and 16% were examples where darkness could be considered something good.).
Paraphrasing Charles Spurgeon: The fullness of Christ will never be known until the emptiness of everything else, but Christ is known, and ..... "
to believe that you have sinned, and that your soul is forfeited to the justice of God, is a very proper thing; but it will not save. Salvation is not by our knowing our own ruin, but by fully grasping the deliverance provided in Christ Jesus."
1 John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
John 3:16-21
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him. He who believes in him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the verdict, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.
Walk in the light, not the dark.
Luke 11:33-36
No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness. If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.
Just saying
