Your major premise is flawed. You presuppose that the Christian God lives as his natural inhabitance in this time-space, and where you are correct when you say we have lightness and darkness co-existing. If you can widen your lens and view you can know that our God only truly exists in light with never darkness, and up is always up with no downside...It is because of the 'fallen' imperfect state we inhabit today we do see polarities, opposites ands extremities. And this 'fallen' state occurred before mankind. It occurred because of the 'fallen' angels and the war into this Universe.You seem to struggle with the concept of ONE thing manifesting as 2 different opposing qualities. Not sure how to make it more simple to understand TBH. Light and dark are extreme ends of the same thing. As said in prev post, you can not have light without dark. The existence of darkness is a prerequisite for light and vice-versa. If Christianity believes you can simply eradicate one then it is fundamentally in error which would be no surprise for most of the mainstream doctrine equally doesn't stand up to rational analysis. You must surely have enough intrinsic innate reasoning to realise that you can not have UP if there is no DOWN for with the down, there is nothing to come up from. You can not have light without darkness for the same reason. Light is the increasing absence of dark and vice-versa. They are gradations of the same thing. Sound and silence likewise. These are quite simple concepts in all honesty.
It follows then that there can not exist a truly benevolent being without there being an opposing wicked being. For if there were no wicked being the concept of benevolence would be meaningless. No good can exist without evil equally existing. Good is the absence of evil and vice-versa. To deny this most basic concept is to deny the reality around you.
So you are consistently applying incorrect primitive logic to your discussion and hoping for a logic outcome, or you have convinced yourself your logic is sound and non-negotiable.
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