Thanks for posting. I have often thought of the derivative nature of a lie. It can't exist without the truth because you can't know what a lie is if you don't know what the truth is. But the truth doesn't need a lie to exist. Dumb example, but I'm at home right now. That's the truth. If you say I am at the doctor's office, or the store, or the post office, they are all lies (or at least false), but they can only be characterized as false based on what the truth is.

Conversely, that I am at home is not the truth because I am not at the doctor's office, store, post office, or any number of other places. You can only determine if whether I am at home true based on whether I am at home. Truth is the source. It can never be derivative. That's why for every one truth there are an infinite number of possible lies.

Similarly, light is not the absence of darkness, but conversely, darkness is the absence of light. It is derivative. Which is why God is the Truth and the Light and the Way. He is the source. He is "I AM."

Satan is not the opposite of God, he is "fallen away" from God. He is the Father of all Lies, by definition derivative, and therefore can never be stronger than God.