Logical deduction

Many of you may have seen or may have even read the account of a student and an atheist professor of philosophy that has made its rounds over time. I like to call it a “logical deduction”, banter concerning certain fundamentals that prove that God exists. God tells us that Creation is enough for us to understand that He is as real as the keyboard I now punch, however some dispute this truth. The atheist or the average scientist often clings to that phenomenon.

This account has opened my eyes to a far deeper understanding of who God is and it has helped cement certain factual truths that I had already grasped in part but now are truly grounded in them, praise God for His light! All it often takes is a slight trim with our “sails of reason”. Just a little tweak may be enough to differentiate north from true north. The “tree of the KNOWLEDGE of good and evil” is where light and darkness part. “Good” is a depiction or reflection of the light whilst the darkness is swallowed up with “evil”. Even the Lord Jesus had this to say, “And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” (Mark 10:18) – So we understand that God is good and everything He is involved with is good even if we may not understand the evil we witness on the outside edges of our lives.

I trust this will help!

If God created everything, this then begs the question what about all the evil we see and witness throughout the world, how does it exist and where does God fit into that equation? For us to understand this, we must know that God is Light, God has saved true believers from the darkness, we have been born again, we are born of the Spirit of God and we have grasped this truth by faith.

Let us take this a little deeper…

In the Garden of Eden there was a tree of life as well as a tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. These are the two trees that are mentioned by name. Death was not a concept that the couple had grasped, it was foreign to their understanding. They were alive and walk in the light because God is light and He was there with them in the Garden.

 “This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (John 1:5) - we must cement this truth into our understanding to find out bearings.

If God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all, then what is darkness or where is its origin? Darkness does not exist in itself; it is the absence of light. So where will we find darkness or all that is evil? The answer is clear; we find darkness and all that is evil where there is no light or where God cannot be found. To understand this we must understand the concept of light. “Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? That’s the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker.” (The student) -  With that settled it then begs the question, did God created evil? For us to answer that we must understand that God created everything including Satan. Was he created as an evil being? No! Is the answer, his original position was one of honour because he lived in the presence of God who is LIGHT and where there is no darkness at all. So what happened? This will give us some insight into that event; “Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers. "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.” (Isaiah 14:11-15) – Somehow Satan believed that he could overthrow God and his sin was exposed and then banished from God’s presence, God removed Himself from Satan, he expelled him from His presences; in other words Satan was no longer cover by the light of God and hence all that is evil now manifests itself in him. Satan depicts darkness and all that is evil because he no longer lives in God’s light. Darkness is not the opposite of light but rather the absence of it.

Mistakes are made, as individuals we often conclude on facts which in detail are the opposite. Does cold exist? Our obvious answer would be yes; we are often exposed to its cruelty and then need heat to help. Cold is not something of itself by rather the absent of heat, just like darkness is the absent of light. With that understood then consider this; evil does not exist within itself it is simply the absence of God. Evil exists we Gods light does not shine, use that as a formulae and apply it into any situation and then come up with you own conclusions. I am settled and I thank God for His light, Amen!

It is believed that this student was Albert Einstein

Signing off

Tyrone Arthur