Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God
create evil?
A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning
challenged his students with this question. "Did God create
everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created
evil.
And, since evil exists, & according to the principle that our works
define
who we are, then we can assume God is evil."
The student became quiet & did not respond to the professor's
hypothetical
definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that the religious faith was a
myth.
Another student raised his hand & said, "May I ask you a question,
professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never
been cold?"
The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man
replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of
physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits
energy,
& heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460F) is the total absence of heat; & all matter
becomes inert
& incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist.
We have
created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied , "Once again you are wrong, darkness does not exist
either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can
study,
but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton 's prism to break white
light
into many colors & study the various wave lengths of each color. You
cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a
world of
darkness & illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space
is?
You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct?
Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is
no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have
already said.
We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to
man. It is in the multitude of crime & violence everywhere in the
world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil.
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist, sir, or at least
it does
not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is
just like
darkness & cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence
of God.
God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man
does
not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that
comes
when there is no heat, or the darkness
that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
2007-04-14
05:05:42
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