why does God dwell in thick darkness?
God dwells in darkness in at least two ways. Since God is light, everything is relatively dark compared to God. In addition, we do not see God because of His holiness. Metaphorically, dark, opaque clouds separate us from seeing God. Q: In 1 Ki 8:12, how is it that the desire for us to do some things is good, yet we are not supposed to do them? A: One reason is that the action would be good, but the timing was not right. However that was not the main reason here. It had to be the right person to build the Temple, and God told David frankly that he was not the right person. David was very warlike, for example killing 90% of the Moabite males when God never told him to do so. God still loved David, but God did not want a man of blood (1 Chronicles 23:8; 28:3) to go down in history as the builder of Gods Temple. Today, sometimes Christians do sin in such a way as to disqualify themselves from certain honorable positions. For example, many churches have a policy that if a pastor commits adu
