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Re: Maybe this time...
I must address this at once. Christians do not have a "dark side" indeed no-one does. It is a psychosocial status. Satan invented it. Satan makes it seem real.
God's creation was perfect. GENESIS 1:31 context Something happened to make it poisonous. Compare this to a spiderbite. Say I get bitten by a spider. Molecular analysis of my corpse would reveal reveal neurotoxins. Does that mean I was a poisonous thing? Of course not. The toxins were something that had been introduced. Indeed, they had killed me. And so it is with this "dark side" of pop psychology. Let's check out God's take on this:
Remember how we were made in God's image? There was therefore no darkness in us at all. Then something happened. Satan happened: toxic, putrid and dark. When exploring satanic realms, the basement breakfast bar, rear of any disused buildings in your area, hanging around docks at 3 o'clock in the morning on toadstools or lurking–in–mall wearing a fluorescent onesie: that is you envenomed. Less alive. God calls you to be more alive. He explains it this way:
So which would you rather be? You as God intended, a sheep cared for by The Good Shepherd? Or an explorer of "the dark side" namely, of the venom within you and the psychosocial status it develops for your cronies to admire the more you sin. To do "both" is to mock God and to blaspheme against The Holy Gost who pleads for you with moanings beyond our comprehension. If there were no reason for Him to do so you might as well say there is no Holy Ghost, no Jesus (after all in your delusion if The Bible is wrong about homosexuality why should it right about Jesus?), no possibility of (or need for) Salvation and—since this "dark side" is a part of our innate nature deriving from mid-brain function or reflexive responses honed over billions of years of evolution—no dark side either since it would just be a function of the preconscious mind monkey see monkey do you were born with. Your mother's voice in utero having ensured that you were programmed with all her fancies spoken aloud.
The Bible answers these questions, full context here:
from Genesis
from I Corinthians
from John
from I John
God is explicit here:
In any exploration of "the dark side" how would you define that which is evil? If your "psychosocial counterpart sought to explore" some "compatible dark side" would that be evil?
I hope that is helpful.
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God's creation was perfect. GENESIS 1:31 context Something happened to make it poisonous. Compare this to a spiderbite. Say I get bitten by a spider. Molecular analysis of my corpse would reveal reveal neurotoxins. Does that mean I was a poisonous thing? Of course not. The toxins were something that had been introduced. Indeed, they had killed me. And so it is with this "dark side" of pop psychology. Let's check out God's take on this:
I Corinthians 15
56a The sting of death is sin
I John 1
5b God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
56a The sting of death is sin
I John 1
5b God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Remember how we were made in God's image? There was therefore no darkness in us at all. Then something happened. Satan happened: toxic, putrid and dark. When exploring satanic realms, the basement breakfast bar, rear of any disused buildings in your area, hanging around docks at 3 o'clock in the morning on toadstools or lurking–in–mall wearing a fluorescent onesie: that is you envenomed. Less alive. God calls you to be more alive. He explains it this way:
John 10
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
So which would you rather be? You as God intended, a sheep cared for by The Good Shepherd? Or an explorer of "the dark side" namely, of the venom within you and the psychosocial status it develops for your cronies to admire the more you sin. To do "both" is to mock God and to blaspheme against The Holy Gost who pleads for you with moanings beyond our comprehension. If there were no reason for Him to do so you might as well say there is no Holy Ghost, no Jesus (after all in your delusion if The Bible is wrong about homosexuality why should it right about Jesus?), no possibility of (or need for) Salvation and—since this "dark side" is a part of our innate nature deriving from mid-brain function or reflexive responses honed over billions of years of evolution—no dark side either since it would just be a function of the preconscious mind monkey see monkey do you were born with. Your mother's voice in utero having ensured that you were programmed with all her fancies spoken aloud.
The Bible answers these questions, full context here:
from Genesis
from I Corinthians
from John
from I John
God is explicit here:
III John 1
11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
In any exploration of "the dark side" how would you define that which is evil? If your "psychosocial counterpart sought to explore" some "compatible dark side" would that be evil?
I hope that is helpful.
instead! Praise Jesus! 
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