All sin comes from external temptations. However, the willingness to commit sin comes from within a person. There are some sins that I have no desire to commit no matter how often I am tempted. There are other sins I am much more prone to commit because of their attractiveness to me. Just as I prefer cheeseburgers over spaghetti, there are some sins that have more appeal to me than others.
This view of our dark side is reasonable. I think everyone is capable of anything, and I only say this because people that do bad things, like murder, probably never thought that they would do it before being confronted with it. Their parents never would've thought that, the person themselves never would've thought that.
BUT, everyone having the raw ingredients to become a murderer (or anything good or bad really), doesn't mean that you will eventually murder. The BIG difference comes in based on how you handle situations (esp. ones that would lead to the dark side), how your parents trained you, not wanting the consequences, and plenty of other individual differences that restrict us from joining our dark side.
In
Star Wars, temptation isn’t only external (Palpatine whispering) or only internal (Anakin’s anger, fear, desire). It’s the interplay of the two. The “dark side” gains power because inner vulnerability meets outer opportunity.
he Light Side gains power in the opposite way the Dark does:
From within: through discipline, self-awareness, compassion, trust in the Force. Yoda teaches that letting go of fear and attachment opens the Jedi to greater strength.
From without: through fellowship, encouragement, and hope given by others - Luke survives because of friends, Rey because of allies, Obi-Wan because of the cause he serves.
So while the Dark Side grows by the meeting of inner weakness and outer temptation, the Light Side grows by the meeting of inner alignment and outer support. Both are relational - but one isolates, the other connects.
Yes — the Force holding both Light and Dark has clear biblical counterparts:
Wheat and tares (Matthew 13:24–30): both grow in the same field until the harvest.
Job’s story: Satan appears in the heavenly court alongside the “sons of God,” showing opposing forces allowed in the same presence.
Isaiah 45:7: “I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I the LORD do all these things.”
Just like the Force, the biblical field allows both currents to operate within the same creation. The question is never
whether both exist, but
how one chooses to walk among them.
"Sin" might be choosing the dark side, but can also be pretending to work for the light side...while displaying expressions which do not align with the side one claims to have chosen...
The third option (not brought through the Star Wars franchise) is to see what else the force has to offer...is it a conscious awareness or simply a mechanism? If a mechanism, then this is where the branching of might be...where the dislike happens...