"The phrase "God is light" appears in 1 John 1:5, where the apostle John is explaining that the message we have from Jesus Christ is that God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all.
Light is the nature and character of God.
He is not a light or a kind of light;
He is light itself.
All light comes from Him.
At the beginning of time, He created the light to dispel the darkness and chaos that was over all the earth.
Then He created the lights in the sky, the sun, moon, and stars.
As light itself and the source of light, He had only to speak and light came into being.
Darkness represents everything that is anti-God:
---the wicked ( who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness...Proverbs 2:13),
---judgment (Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” Exodus 10:21),
---and death (Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Psalm 88:12).
The light that is God is the opposite of the darkness that is evil."
CompellingTruth
Light is the nature and character of God.
He is not a light or a kind of light;
He is light itself.
All light comes from Him.
At the beginning of time, He created the light to dispel the darkness and chaos that was over all the earth.
Then He created the lights in the sky, the sun, moon, and stars.
As light itself and the source of light, He had only to speak and light came into being.
Darkness represents everything that is anti-God:
---the wicked ( who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness...Proverbs 2:13),
---judgment (Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” Exodus 10:21),
---and death (Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Psalm 88:12).
The light that is God is the opposite of the darkness that is evil."
CompellingTruth