Did God create evil? I can prove those who believe he did....wrong!?

Question

Does Evil Exist?

Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God create
evil? The University professor 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", the student
replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil,
since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who
we are, then God is evil."

The student became quiet before such an answer. The professor, quite
pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proved once more
that the Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and 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 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. Every body or object is

susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes

a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-459 F) is the
total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and 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 sir, 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 and study the various wavelengths of each color. You
cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of
darkness
and 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 and 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 and 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.

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Answer 1

Just ignore the haters. God will deal with them in His awesome time.

Answer 2

While darkness and cold can be defined as the absence of other substances, respectively light and heat, these are all physical properties - they can be quantifiably measured.
Evil, on the other hand, is not a physical property, nor is it quantifiable. There is no scale of evil on which you can measure certain acts or people - it is purely subjective. As such, any definition is to some degree arbitrary and subjective.
However, to keep this strictly within your Judeo-Christian context, I would still argue that evil is not an absence. An absence implies passivity, and Evil is always an active choice. It is the deliberate manifestation of one's God-given free will to choose between right and wrong.

Answer 3

What this story does is something that many religious stories do. This story attempts to take something that is tangible/testable like heat/light, and relate it to a human concept like good/evil. However, this comparison is like comparing apples to love. They are 2 completely different things, and one is a tangle thing, while the other is not.

Religions will often do this so that we start to see these human concepts such as God, good, and evil as real things. By comparing an intangible concept to a tangible thing, a person begins to grasp the concept as a real thing. Once a person believes that the concept is tangible it is easier to persuade them into believing a particular religious doctrine.

Good and evil are simply names that we give to human actions. You can not measure these actions, and without humans there would be no-good and evil in the world. Nature does not know these concepts because they are human concepts. However, heat energy and light energy exists in the universe if we are in existence or not. Therefore to compare these things is a fallacy, and I doubt that someone with a Ph.D. would have missed this. This leads me to believe a religious zealot made up this story.

The answer to your questions is an easy one. God did not create evil. Man created good, evil, and God.

Answer 4

Thst is a very good argument for your cause. Although evil is an abscence of morals not God. I am completely abscent of God and have many morals. I like that you're using reson to explain it though. I'll still never believe in God without proof but I think a lot of people calling God evil stems more from seemingly ruthless acts. I believe he is non existant not evil but that is pretty much bullet proof against that argument to make God look evil.

Answer 5

First of all, assuming you're right (which your not), it's god's fault for being absent, therefore god created evil. Secondly, the Bible says god created evil. Third, if what you say is true it only accounts for human evil, not natural evils such as flooding and earthquakes. Your story doesn't prove anything, the absence theodicy doesn't work no matter how you look at it.

Answer 6

When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, they lived without worries for food and shelter etc. God told to them not to eat from the tree-of-knowledge-of-good -and-evil...so if evil did exist, God warned about it. He gave them all the free will.

The serpent was clever and he spoke to Eve. He twisted God's words and tricked Eve for a very bad deal. That is pretty evil. The serpent told to Eve "You will not die. God knows that the moment you eat from the tree, you will see what is really going on . You will be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good and evil"

And then they sure did know what was going on...they were naked, feeling guilty, shameful...and Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed serpent...they could not take responsibility for their own actions. God did not want them to know anything about the pain and suffering and hard labor...but disobedience toward God will result all kind of sorrow.

I like the statement of the student...evil is absence of God. What kind of standards you could give to morals without Moral Law Giver?? God gave us free will, so He is prepared for us to be separated from Him if that is what we chose...are you prepared to be separated from God? Eternity is a long time where ever you are going to be. God can make everything new, everything better, everything to last forever.

Answer 7

Urban legends, ugh, hate them. First of all it's completely arbitrary to define evil as the absence of god. There's no reason to think that it is. Secondly, isn't god omipresent according to judeo-christian myth? How can he be omnipresent and absent?

Edit: Wow... you posted something on Y!A and knew that people would comment? You must really be psychic or something. You're very special, in that short bus sort of way.

Answer 8

A common forwarded email.

Sometimes, they claim that the student was Einstein, of course they're wrong. This event also is highly unlikely to have ever occured.

Besides, the "absense of good" argument makes no sense.

Just what goodness is there in moving a cup 2 cm?

Stretching?

None, yet this is not evil. There are things that are good, things that are evil and things that are irrelevant to moral judgement.

Answer 9

That story is absurd. Who defines these words? The Bible even has a quote that God creates ALL things, including evil. All those terms...'darkness', 'cold', 'evil' are relevant terms.
Are you questioning that murder, rape, suicide, etc. are not evil? What then makes, or means, God is good. According to your screwy psychology, good can be relevant also. And, if God did exist, then he wouldn't use terms with definitions unfamiliar to the majority of his creation...that is, unless he wanted to trick and confuse us.

Answer 10

Your right. Evil doesn't exist it is the absence of Good and Darkness doesn't exist because it is the absence of light.

Answer 11

God created satan as a angel of light it was satan himself who decided to become evil and turn away from the light he created man but its man decision to do evil so no God is not evil and sinful man is