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God, omnibenevolent or omnipotent and omniscient?

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The Hebrew word chatta'ah, translated sin, is offence, and the Greek word hamartia translated sin, is offence, but emphasizes that it is due to missing the mark.
So, anything that misses the mark of God's standard of right, is an offense to God - sin.

Sin, thus, only enters the scene when something goes in opposition to God, and that is what the angel who got the names Satan (opposer), and Devil (slanderer) did.
He introduces things that were in opposition to God.

There is only light and darkness.
To go away from light, is to head into darkness.
Jesus spoke about light in this way. The scriptures themselves called Jesus light.

So, before God created, there was light, and darkness outside that light.
Would God consume the darkness? I believe that in time, darkness would be completely consumed, and light alone would remain.

To throw it out there ... Light called out of darkness is a spiritual principle, in relationship to the soul, as is light and darkness are the same to him; or as there is no place God is not, and why a cross, or to become desolate brings forth fruit unto, or a coming to this truth that is God to us, and in us (and this in relationship to each other) ...

God is a word and the darkness the lack of knowledge of what this word is in realtionship to us.

One day we will all know as all along we have known to be of light/God, which is as individual, as it is collective ... it is an ascending forever ...
 
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