<p>It's only when we accept personal responsibility for being the co-creators that we are that we can begin to see the many ways in which we create our own dark reality, and step out of the darkness that has consumed us (and our lives and our relationships) and move into the Light, where we can become a reflection of God's love at work. We've learned our survival skills well, and don't always realize that emotional survival (that is, giving in to the emotional need to create chaos in our lives) is a giant step into the darkness and sometimes the forerunner to spiritual death in this lifetime. If everything is of God, and everything is raw potential, then my logical conclusion would be that God creates energy - neutral energy - that we, in turn, manifest into "light" or "darkness." It isn't that evil is a force separate from God; it's that evil is a human choice to use God's creative energy for less than spiritual purposes. Everything physical is false; we've created it by putting enough energy and emotion behind our thoughts to make it real. Our greatest challenge in choosing between the light and the darkness is the difficulty of turning the other cheek and walking LED Low Bay Lamp away from the opportunity for conflict and confrontation. This is of the darkness, and those who advocate working from the darkness in the name of light are the "false prophets" that every religion warns us about. This is not God's work; this is not of His Light. This is the conviction of seemingly endless groups throughout history who have persecuted, tortured and killed in the name of religion. The problem today is that we fail to see ourselves as co-creators of this powerful energy, and we fail to see that the solution is as easy as making a conscious choice NOT to co-create with others who are manifesting darkness. The Christian perception that we are caught in the midst of a major power struggle between two equal forces - helpless victims of invisible forces fighting each other for our souls, and having one isolated lifetime in which to choose which force to follow - is one that I simply can't accept. He's always been a key player in the six-thousand year history of the Judeo/Christian religions, and he makes his first appearance early on in Genesis when he tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. If God is the Creative Source - if God is the beginning and the end of it all, and everything that exists is a part of God himself - then it must have been God who created evil. People, as the pawns in this universal power play, followed either Jesus or Satan.</p>