In Gen 1, since God created everything, did He create darkness, evil, and holes in the ground?
If He created evil, He does not sound like a perfectly good God. If not, then whoever did sounds like they are a creator also. A: God created every thing. Darkness is not a thing, but an absence or reduction of light. Evil is not a thing, but an absence or twisting of good. Holes, darkness, and evil were not directly created by God, but they came into existence as tautologies, or “existential byproducts” of matter, light and good. Likewise a shadow is not an independent thing, having matter, energy, or spirit. Nevertheless, plants can die in the shadows. So shadows have a “parasitic existence” but they still really exist. Q: In Gen 1, since God created everything good, why do tornadoes, plagues, and other disasters strike? A: Everything was originally good. However, Romans 8:20-22 reveals that since the Fall, the earth was “subjected to frustration” too. The whole world is under the dominion of the evil one (1 John 5:19), and the prince of this world is Satan according to John 12:31; 1
