"God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all."
1 John 1:5
No darkness AT ALL... in contrast to men in whom both darkness and light, both good and evil cohabitate. We are images of God marred by the fall. Author Cornelius Plantinga writes, "Creation speaks out of both sides of its mouth now." Reading through the adjectives Plantinga uses to describe mankind reminds us who we are: half-ruined, twisted, polluted, divided, double-minded, split, spoiled, contaminated, shipwrecked, fallen. Our hearts are both "this and that" where good and evil are intertwined and light is overshadowed.
With all of this mess in our hearts and in our world, we can be grateful that there is One who has retained His pure, uncontaminated holiness.
"God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all."1 John 1:5
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