Evil can be 'defined', imo, as the absence of the spirit of God.



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e.g.

Q.
Can light and darkness, exist together?

A.
Light and darkness, cannot exist together.
Light will drive away the darkness.
Or, the darkness will try to extinguish the light.
But they cannot co-exist.

It is an impossibility.

Light and darkness, and, goodness and wickedness.
They are separate, and by definition, they cannot co-exist.



And the wicked cannot 'see' God, because the spirit of God will not [cannot!] 'touch' them.

Why not?
Our God is Holy.
And God will not 'touch' those, who refuse to separate the good, from the evil.
And God will not 'touch' those, who refuse to discern between good, and evil.



IMO, the purpose of this life, is so that we can [individually] demonstrate, plainly, if we want to live in the light, or if we want to live in the darkness.

Sadly, much of mankind will choose the darkness [i believe].

The selfish nature of the wicked, compels them [to remain in rebellion against the 'essence' of what God is].

Truth and light, and love.





John 1:5
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

A disturbance in the force

A.
Light and darkness, cannot exist together.
Light will drive away the darkness.
Or, the darkness will try to extinguish the light.
But they cannot co-exist.

It is an impossibility.

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well i am here to announce they can will and do exist as you are living

through the paradigm at this very moment

in the 3rd dimension yes it is the order of things as it were

and so it is

namaste

IMO, the purpose of this life, is so that we can [individually] demonstrate, plainly, if we want to live in the light, or if we want to live in the darkness.

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Now that I agree with, mostly, ..but we are not demonstrating to an almighty with the power to banish us to Hell....  re-incarnation is a nifty idea which connects with your philosophy  Light, but doesn't with Christianity. Can't be reborn if you are in Heaven or Hell - altho no doubt there is some writings somewhere which resolve this to the satisfaction of some.

I can't help but go with  re-incarnation over the other. I'm an atheist, as I've said before, - and I'll add that there is a spark in all of us - of the 'divine' if you want to put it that way. I'd say - more than this .    Inside -  not out there somewhere.
I think we have probably all come across people who are kind and good, and aren't religious.

So its not about an identifiable Evil  as in an entity -  except for those who believe in God. The early priests must have found it easier to explain the idea of evil to the folk of the land by giving it a name, thereby creating a very handy tool to hold over the heads of the folk, to control and rob them, all in the name of ....  Now that is an act of evil!.  

So its not about an identifiable Evil  as in an entity

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evil if you will,is a manifestation of thought through harmonics

sacred geometry

as above,so below

and so it is

namaste

One can't exist without the other.

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this is 3rd dimensional rationale'

and thinking yes and totally understandable and expected yes

however

in the higher dimensions there is only LOVE and LIGHT

no evil can exist there beloved ones

and so it is

so be it

namaste

"as above, so below"     I can add "what goes up must come down"

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in context as above

planets going around stars/suns

these traversing around galaxies galaxies traversing around universes

universes traversing around omniverse and cosmosi

[that is in fact the as above part],the macro cosmos

electrons going around the nuclei the micro [below]

and here,

"Why rant against the Dark, when the Light could not exist without it?"

this is the physical universe and not aplicable to the higher dimensions

this is totally understandable you would be in a state of confusion upon

such matters and with forgiveness concerning individual interpretations

namaste