or...is darkness merely the absence of light? Which is it?
Darkness is the absence of light.
darkness merely the absence of light!
Darkness is merely the absence of light. Darkness is merely the absence of light (the wax candle has gone out). --- In Oriental religions, there is the yin and yang which says that all light has a little flaw (little darkness) in it and all darkness has a little flaw in it (little light). Some nights there is no moon to be seen (only the stars); some nights there is a full moon (as well as the stars).
Darkness is the absence of light..why? Because before there was darkness there was always light..the light of God, the light of good, the light of His Word, His angels, His creations. Then darkness formed out of the mind of Lucifer. If light is the absence of darkness that would mean that darkness should always be present and when it is not present it is because of light...understand? Light should always be present, because that is what God wants us to portray, His shining light of grace, good, and sinlessness. When darkness takes over that is because there is no light in them or their light has diminished! I am also understanding that you are talking about good and evil because your question is in the R S section. From many answers here they think they are in the electronics and physics section. In any case this is a good question to ask.
The light is not possible to be separated from darkness completely. Light cannot be without darkness and darkness cannot be without the light, for the reason that light, in a respect, is the events of the darkness and the darkness, in a respect, is the events of the light, both are with each other and have been and will be together. But it is (on) the appearance of light, that the shadow vanishes. In Chinese philosophy, yin yang, which are often shortened to yin-yang or yin yang, are concepts used to describe how apparently opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary,[Note 1] interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another. Many tangible dualities (such as light and dark, fire and water, and male and female) are thought of as physical manifestations of the duality of yin and yang. Yin and yang can be thought of as complementary (rather than opposing) forces that interact to form a dynamic system in which the whole is greater than the assembled parts. Everything has both yin and yang aspects, (for instance shadow cannot exist without light). Either of the two major aspects may manifest more strongly in a particular object, depending on the criterion of the observation. In Daoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real; so, the duality of yin and yang is an indivisible whole.
