Does God dwell in darkness or light?

1 Timothy 6:15-16, "...He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see."

Psalm 18:11-12, "He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies. From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire."

Psalm 97:2, "Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne."

According to 1 Timothy chapter 6, God dwells in unapproachable light, however, according to Psalms chapters 18 and 97, God is surrounded by thick darkness.


        "Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)
        "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)

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