Thank you! The life-philosophy of: “with every bit of good there must come some bad” is no different than proposing that for every 2+2=4 thought there is an equal and opposite 2+2=5 thought. This is, of course, eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, believing that both good and evil are valid and have equal standing in the sight of God, who stated conclusively that “everything that He had made” is not only “good”, but “very good.” This is the tree of thinking both correctly and incorrectly simultaneously; the tree of thinking “I can” and “I can’t” simultaneously; the tree of telling oneself to “Press on!” and “Give up!” simultaneously; the tree of knowldge of God and devil, holding both in mind simultaneously.
James 3:11-12 – “Can both fresh water and bitter water flow from the same spring? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” See also James 1:8 and 4:8. All of theses verse are very direct in admonsih me against eating of the tree of double-mindedness.