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Read it again. "The light in which this darkness casts a shadow." The darkness is not itself the light. But it takes away our ability to take the light utterly for granted.

It is a credible thesis that our experiences encountering evil can help us to learn goodness. To make the thesis palatable is beyond my capabilities. (paraphrase of argument in C. S. Lewis' The Problem of Pain which I would recommend)

"The light in which this darkness casts a shadow." The darkness is not itself the light. But it takes away our ability to take the light utterly for granted.

It is a credible thesis that our experiences encountering evil can help us to learn goodness.

This is tantamount of accusing God of evil that good may come. Paul very clearly denounces this view: Rom 3:8 "And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just."

No good ever come from evil. Evil is a negative. Good only come from good, and anything that obscures the light is evil.

My screen name, by the way is Narnian in origin. I prefer Miracles, which I consider the only good apologetic writing extant.

Hank