Did god create evil? i know its long but plz read?

Question

This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?

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 was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.


Another student raised his hand and said, "Can 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. Everybody and every 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 (- 460 degrees 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 too little 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 every day. It is in the daily example 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 not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. 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.


The young mans name --- Albert Einstein

no i know that god did not creat evil and i know god exists i just wanted people to read it

Answer 1

Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...

If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.

If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?

And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:

If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.

If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.

Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.

Answer 2

The existence of anything is contingent upon the existence of its diametrical opposite. Thus you can't have good without bad, you cannot have dark without light, you can't have cold without hot

Evil has to exist if only to justify the existence of God. Can God defeat Satan? In my opinion NO. If satan were to be destroyed, then God would evaporate.

The concept of good and evil in the western world comes via the Zoroastrians. It is interesting to note that there were massive changes in both Judaism and Buddhism in that at approximately the same time parts of both broke off and formed a salvationist group.

I attribute that to Alexander the Great who invaded Persia, the home of Zoroastrianism, driving them into a diaspora which took them into Judea and into India. I am supported in this view by my good friend, now dead, D. T. Suzuki who taught Buddhism at Columbia University when I knew him.

If your professor is telling you that evil is merely the absence of God, I can tell you where he got that idea.

Answer 3

Albert Einstein you say? that's strange because he was an atheist, so I am going to have to go with no on this one, I can see him saying something like this just to mock his professors at the time, but otherwise it's a good story and all, just kind of flawed and all if he was actually a non believer which he is on the list for famous atheists

Answer 4

God did not create evil...man created evil. Read Genesis. It is all spelled out there.

Answer 5

i can tell u this god had many angels in his kingdom. so one day one of the angel started boasting about himself that he was greater than all the others and even god himself so god banished him from heaven and sent him to hell.
his name was lucifer the devil so god didn't create evil. evil originated because of pride,selfishness and greed.

Answer 6

God does not create evil. People create evil.

Answer 7

That was not a question. You just took it as an opportunity to push your own agenda. It was an exercise in sophistry.

Answer 8

I read. At least 2 points.

Answer 9

That was a great story. It's those kind of things that make you think. And yes, I agree.

Answer 10

Then your question really is, "Does God exist?"