There Is No Gray Area Between God And Satan, Good And Evil

Common Sense Commentary: Truth is true and Error is false. A half truth is a whole lie, a little white lie is a big black lie. There is no gray area between God and Satan, good and evil. Lucifer was an archangel in heaven whose name meant "Light Reflector". His assigned calling was to reflect the glorious light of God. He had no light of his own.   God created him covered with precious gems to reflect the glorious light of God.  "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold .... prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee." Ezek.28:13 & 15. Lucifer did his job until his beauty and high position made him proud and then ambitious to become God, himself. (Isa.14:12-15). So Lucifer was cast out of heaven and thereby lost his only light, the reflected light of God's glory. Even with his brilliant reflecting covering he became darkness ... without the light of God. Darkness is nothing but the absence of light. When God cast him out into the earth, he brought his darkness with him and the entire earth became darkness. That was the state of earth, in Gen.1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." The verb "was" here is the Hebrew word hayah and means "became". It is translated "became" in Gen.2:7 & 19:26. So the earth "became" darkness and Lucifer became Satan who is also said to have the "powers of darkness". He was using that power on Eve in Gen.3:1-5. In these verses God says Satan was "subtle". This Heb. word "arum" means elusive, wiley, cunning, crafty. Jesus said he was a "liar and the father of it" in Jn.8:44. When he was talking to Eve, he, the liar, never called God a liar but he lied about God and cast a shadow of doubt on God's word, misquoted God's word, contradicted God's word and accused God of not being exactly honest. So he was dealing in illusions and deception which Eve fell for and Adam acquiesced to. Satan misled them into believing there was a gray area between what God said and what Satan said. He didn't say God was a liar but suggested that God had ulterior motives and it was alright for them to violate God's word. Satan uses this same gray area method today. All false prophets insert some measure of truth in their heresies. A little taste of truth makes the poison medicine go down easier. 

This is clearly seen Acts.16:16-18 "And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation. And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. Notice that this happened when the disciples "went to prayer". Satan interrupted them and distracted the people with a demon possessed girl. The word spirit of "divination", Greek "python", means she had an evil soothsaying demon or snake, and yet, what she was saying was the truth. Satan was trying to plant another Judas among the disciples. No doubt some of the people believed this demon possessed girl was part of the apostolic team and may have been open to believe the heresies she would have spewed out later, if Paul had not rebuked the evil python spirit and cast it out of her. This is why we should never take any professing preacher at face value. Satan has more false prophets than the Lord has faithful ones. We must measure them by time and testing what they believe and do consistently. That is what is meant in 1 Jn.4:1   "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." There is no gray area between God and the Devil, good and evil.  There may appear to be but if the whole truth were known, a thing is either true or false, good or bad. 

We have all witnessed or been guilty of feeling that "my carnal weakness is in the gray area; yours is in the black". But God's word says,  "Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things." Rom.2:1.  There are no gray areas between good and evil. 


Some people have a real hang-up concerning the food God wants us to eat or not eat. The truth is, all food is acceptable in moderation... And no food is acceptable in excess. But even though the Scripture is clear on this fact, if you think it is wrong for you to eat it, it is wrong. "I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean." Rom.14:14. Even though a thing is OK, if you think it is wrong, don't do it because you would be rebelling against what you thought was wrong in God's eyes. That is not the same as a thing being absolutely wrong but you think it is OK. It is still wrong.

The Scripture says that in the last days (I think we are there) that some people will be ..."Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:  For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer." 1 Tim.42-5. There is no gray area here, but if something we do is thought to be wrong by a Christian brother, we are wrong to do it in front of them, even if it is not Scripturally wrong.
"For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." Rom.14:20-22. RB