I hate this saying. :mmph:
Neither requires the other, nor can they have anything to do with one another. One, in fact, utterly obliterates the other.
That's a ridiculous saying that intends only to undermine good and elevate evil. Else you could explain how "there can be no darkness without light" makes any sense at all.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?
1 John 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
These things happen because the world is corrupt. The world is corrupt because sin has entered into it. Sin entered into it because men were created with free will and chose it. Men were created with free will so that they might come to God by choice rather than force.
That ridiculous saying stops right there and tries to imply God created evil intentionally, values it, accepts it and see it as a good thing in the end. It pointedly ignores the logical conclusion. Man sinning by choice, rather than coming to God by choice, utterly jumps track off God's will. He gave man the option of doing evil but that was never His intention, He doesn't accept it and He firmly denounces it in the strongest possible terms.
And in the end He'll destroy it and cast all guilty of it into hell. Which is exactly what they've freely chosen and this saying implies is good. :hammer:
