When scripture tells you, “God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light,” it raises a question few dare to ask – If God created light, what existed before that moment?

If light was created by God, then why do people say “God is light”? 

This also means, at least in the language of scripture, the origin – the womb so to speak out of which light was born – was darkness. And if God is all, if God is everything, then yes, even darkness is God, it’s not a force acting against God.

This single realization stretches the fabric of how we see not just theology, but existence, science, and even ourselves. It changes how we view our struggles, our fears, our own shadows. It suggests that darkness isn’t the enemy. Darkness was actually the beginning.

The Fear of Darkness

From the time we are children, we are subconsciously programmed to fear the darkness.

– The monsters under the dark bed.
– The unknown in the dark closet.
– The sounds we hear, but don’t know what they are.

But why is that fear of darkness so universal? It’s because darkness symbolizes the unknown. And humans fear what they cannot see, predict, or control.

Yet, if we go back to scripture, darkness wasn’t painted as evil – it simply what was. “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Darkness wasn’t cursed. It wasn’t rejected. It was the canvas on which the light spectrum would one day be painted.

In other words – Darkness is not the enemy of light; it would actually be the mother of light technically.

Modern science actually confirms this mystery. In quantum physics, before particles emerge into visible reality, they exist as what is referred to as probabilities – a wave function in what scientists call the “quantum vacuum.” To the human eye, this looks like nothing. But it is not nothing. It is the fertile ground of everything.

Isn’t that eerily similar to what the bible describes?

– A void.
– A darkness.
– A hidden potential, waiting for the spoken word, “Let there be…”

What if the darkness was not a mistake, but the fertile quantum womb of creation itself so to speak? What if the darkness is not “evil”, but rather the origin of the divine algorithm, holding infinite possibilities before a single strand of light ever stretched across the universe itself?

We don’t have to look at sciences to understand this. We live it.

Every human being goes through times of what is referred to as darkness – loss, grief, depression, confusion, the times where the future feels formless and void so to speak. And what do most of us do? We resist it. We fight it. We selfishly hold onto it.

But look closer – how many times in your life did your deepest growth come out of those very seasons of darkness?

– A breakup led to an amazing self-discovery.
– A failure forced reinvention.
– A season of loneliness created a strength you didn’t know you had.

Our darkness is not punishment. It is the fertile ground of transformation. Just as light was born from darkness, our clarity is born from confusion, our healing from our wounds, our awakening from our shadows.

The Divine Paradox

If God is everything, as most anyone who believes in a God would agree, then God is both light and darkness. To say otherwise is to make God incomplete.

This is where we struggle – because we have been taught that darkness = evil. But in truth, darkness simply is. It is the place before form, before definition, before separation. It is the origin.

Light allows us to see distinctions – this from that, me from you, good from bad. But darkness is the field of oneness connected to all things visible and invisible. No divisions, no duality. The paradox is this:

– Light reveals.
– Darkness unites.

And both are God.

Our entire existence whispers the same message: darkness is not your enemy – it is your beginning.

This is a big reason why I wrote The Other 95%: Unleashing the Power You Forgot You Had. Because most of us live only in the 5% of reality we can see – the light, the visible, the obvious. But the other 95% – the subconscious mind, the hidden universe, the unseen patterns – that’s where creation and life really happens.

And just like scripture says, it all begins in the darkness.