QUITE POSSIBLY the MOST INTERESTING THING YOU WILL READ IN A WHILE...GOD CREATE EVERYTHING? WHY EVIL EXISTS?

Question

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.

Answer 1

oh yeah, well... aren't you on a roll... you won this round...

Answer 2

This was already expounded by St Thomas Aquinas in extraordinary clarity.

Evil is a negation, a comming short of, a lack of Good.

Evil trully does not posess an intrinsic reality but is only the result of man's actions when they do anything that attempts against the natural and logical order of the universe. i.e.The law of God.

We feel that evil has real existence because we see it all around, but evil is just a lack of good in man that acts not acording to the truth and good of all, but for his owen benefit.
It;s interesting to notice that also Aristotle, with Aquinas and many others have pointed out that nobody wills evil because of it being evil, for evil itself. but verybody chooses an evil under the appearance of a good. Because they see a certain good in it.

In this way, somebody that chooses to kill somebody, even knowing is against the law, does it bevause of a certyain benefit that he apreciates will come as a result: could be money, freedom, internal satisfaction due to vengeance, etc. But the last end of the action is a perceived good, although not a real one because the means were done against the natural and the human law, with full knowledge of its infricting it. He does this in selfishness
Or a fourteen year old that is not told that sex before marriage is a sin, or that prostitution is wrong, she will engage in it for a number of reasons. because of need of love, money, fun, etc. all pointing to an apparent good.
She does this in ignorance



Man naturally desires the good, naturally desires to be happy.

But in what man errs is when we look for that hapiness and we fail to see that the good we look is acttually evil, mainly because of:
-Selfishness
-Ignorance
-Fear, etc.

God bless you

And yeah, sadly there will be still clogged ears.

Answer 3

Darkness is a lack of light. A lack of light does exist.

You just tossed around some semi-scientific statements that you apparently don't understand, and inserted your religious views at the end in the hope that the two would blend together, giving your ideas some relevance. The writers of the bible tried to do the same thing... as did most religions.

I can say that 2+2=4, so the unicorns must exist. That does not make it true.

Here, I fixed it for you:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au7x58rTOL0tzLLjs.MxKLbd7BR.?qid=20070414093401AARd2ww

Answer 4

He did create everything, including EVIL. Which is Lucifer, the light-bearer, the root of all evil. Before Lucifer become evil he was an angel. I think he was the right hand of God. But he was sent to Hell because he wanted to be like God or something like that.

Answer 5

i fell asleep while reading can't you post a short version
so that means evil in fact is just the lack of God in someones heart and because we can assume that there is no soul(no prof but plenty for the mind) so therefore evil is the lack of God in someones mind so going on evil is the lack of god in the brain so God is not omnipresent if he was he would be in the brain as well as in everything so that means that either God either isn't omnipresent which would basically makes him useless and imperfect or he doesn't exist
I'd pick God doesn't exist instead of an imperfect God

Answer 6

You do know that this is a fictional story, right? This never actually happened. It is a story that was written by religious people to make people think that they had some sort of breakthrough, defeating a "college professor" with their "brilliance". Every single argument that that student makes in this story can be easily countered by anyone with an active brain cell. It's not really that brilliant.

Answer 7

God made the angels..but the angels are made..from the power of God..with soul..they are not created..objects are created..and the earthly human body..who dresses us..like a cloth..if angels were created...satan cannot be guilty..because a creation is an object ..not a reasonable being..who must have judgement..

so satan wanted a power like God..a place like His..a glory like His..this was the first and biggest evil..people..are doing evil things..from small to big....but the bigest evil from my point of view..is ignoring God..making a God..out of yourself and dictating to others..or out of other things..

evil exists..God doesn't hit you..a man etc does..God says..turn the other cheak..

Answer 8

Nope, wasn't interesting at all, in fact was very boring.

Your God even boasts about having created evil in the OT. Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version reads, “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”


Now, let me refute your urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

Answer 9

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Non-believer's case:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's case:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 10

The story is a hoax, in the original version it was even claimed that Einstein was the student.

The professor in the story sounds like one that's not very suitable for his job.

Answer 11

The Holy Quran

[7:27] O children of Adam, do not let the devil dupe you as he did when he caused the eviction of your parents from Paradise, and the removal of their garments to expose their bodies. He and his tribe see you, while you do not see them. We appoint the devils as companions of those who do not believe.