Or, as the “Light Verse,” one of the most beloved passages in the sacred scripture of Islam, expresses it: “In him was life,” the prologue to the Gospel of John declares regarding Jesus, “and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not” ( 1:4-5). “I am the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,” declares the Savior in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ canonical text known as the Doctrine and Covenants ( 93:2). “And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things” ( Doctrine and Covenants 88:67).
#Be the light bible verse manual
The concept of a close link between light and God, or even of some kind of identity between light and the divine, runs through many religious traditions.Īmong the documents discovered among the ancient Jewish Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, is the so-called “War Scroll,” a manual of military strategy and organization that is also known as “The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness.” And, in the ancient Iranian tradition of Zoroastrianism, one of the central properties of the benevolent Ahura Mazda - God - is uncreated, glorious, primordial light (xvarnah). It fills the heavens, which are the abode of light, and it was the energy from which every material thing in existence has been formed. “God is light,” says 1 John 1:5, “and in him is no darkness at all.” “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,” declares James 1:17, “and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
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