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Did God Creat Everything?

A German 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 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?"

The professor replied "Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"

The students snickered at the young man's question.

2007-05-23 07:34:32 · 13 answers · asked by Veritas et Aequitas () 7 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F)is the total absence of heat. 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 wave lengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it.

2007-05-23 07:35:03 · update #1

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 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."

2007-05-23 07:35:43 · update #2

The professor sat down.

The student was Albert Einstein.

2007-05-23 07:36:13 · update #3

I highly doubt the story is true as far as who the student was based on what Einstein truly believed, as noted in his autobigraphy. It is something christians have posted all around the web. However it is a very nice read. I am not a very religious person at all. I do believe in a God though and I find this very good writing. I am truly just looking for people to argue against it, as I see some valid points made in this writing.

2007-05-24 03:34:35 · update #4

My faith in religion fades with every passing moment but my faith in God will forever be strong. I am a very open-minded person that's why I posted. I'm not really even asking for answers because I already believe. It doesn't mean I shut my eyes and ears to the opponents just because of my belief though. It can't be proven nor disproven that God even exists. That's the beauty of it all and why it will be a never ending debate.

2007-05-24 03:51:57 · update #5

13 answers

Let's hope this beautiful story is authentic and that it hasn't grown up around this famous person as many stories do. It was nice.

The point made about God and his creation has been made many times in regard to Satan. Since some believe that God made him while others believe that Satan is self-made by choosing the wrong path -- just as a thief makes himself a thief the moment of his first theft.

About light and darkness, it is interesting to note that the Bible states that God shapes light -- not makes or creates it, and in regard to darkness, the Bibles shows this to be an artifice, it is made to be dark.

We also have to realize as the Bible shows that God is "riding the old universe / heavens" (paraphrased) thus by the fact of accepting God as having no beginning and no end -- we ourselves are accepting that God (and all that his physical self entails) and that pertaining to God's "eco-system" (if any such) also had to exists parallel.

Thus God didn't create himself or that which is part of his "? eco-system." (Yes, I am way in over my head, but this is philosophy, right!)

2007-05-23 15:59:41 · answer #1 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 1 0

lol, you need to do some thinking. Sin and evil or Hell is not created. The definition of Sin is "missing the mark" it the gap between what is the truth and everything else. Can that gap be created? Definition of evil is absence of God. Can and absence of anything be created? if you remove light from a room, the room is dark, is darkness created? Hell is a place where God's presence is no more. The presence of God is still here on this Earth, after death, people who didn't reconciled their relationship with God will fall in to an eternity without God. Is absence of God, created? Think. God made everything good. he can only created things that are good. When you remove God from things that are good, it becomes evil. When Satan chose to remove himself from the Glory of God, he became who he is. When Man chose to remove himself from God, sin and death entered into humanity. When a man is put into a place where there is no God; thus, resulting in absence of good, that is Hell.

2016-05-21 00:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

This is an argument by definition. You are defining evil as the absence of goodness. Others might define evil as a separate and distinct idea, with good and evil at different ends of a spectrum of behavior. For example, consider ultraviolet and infrared light. Both exist; one is not the absence of the other.

2007-05-23 07:55:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Argument by analogy always depends on the strength or "goodness" of the analogy, for one thing, and it's hardly clear it's a good argument in any case when the existence of something is in question. Arguing that God is like heat and light begs the question regarding his existence.

The professor had good grounds for his argument. See the link.

2007-05-23 08:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Philo 7 · 0 0

no doubt about that. did God create everything?
The human brain's complexity shows a higher intelligence behind it.
The human brain...simultaneously processes an amazing amount of information. Your brain takes in all the colors and objects you see, the temperature around you, the pressure of your feet against the floor, the sounds around you, the dryness of your mouth, even the texture of your keyboard. Your brain holds and processes all your emotions, thoughts and memories. At the same time your brain keeps track of the ongoing functions of your body like your breathing pattern, eyelid movement, hunger and movement of the muscles in your hands. is this creation of God amazing?
similarly earth, nature, water and the best creation is people.
God does not force us to believe in him, though he could. Instead, he has provided sufficient proof of his existence for us to willingly respond to him.God wants to be known. He created us with the intention that we would know him. He has surrounded us with evidence of himself and he keeps the question of his existence squarely before us .

2007-05-23 08:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by sandhya p 4 · 0 0

Yeah. That's a great little story. But how can some mythical magical little entity seemingly out of nowhere just magically appear and create everything? Do you believe in leprechauns? Do you believe in unicorns? I used to believe in santa claus. Isn't that exactly the same?

2007-05-23 07:40:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Let me tell you about other words of that very same student:

...religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom...Albert Einstein.

2007-05-23 08:09:25 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 5 · 1 1

Instead of that, ask your self, Who created God?
Is there really a god?
Did Nature create the humanrace?
Not only think about humans, think about every single thing alive and not alive.
The thuth is: "WE DONT KNOW"
There many religions fighting about "who brings the most humans to their theory"
And believe, no one is not that even close to the truth, the're not hitting the riddle, We are rabbits in the magician hat, and whos the magician? Do we really know? ask your self, dont ask anyone else please, do thatfavor to your self, make your own conclusion.

2007-05-23 07:50:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

bravo my dear boy and his teachers thought he was retarded or slow when he was a child Ive witnessed the power of the devil himself now i choose to embrace gods divine wisdom n love

2007-05-23 07:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

That was FREAKING AWESOME!! I was saved this past Easter along with my girlfriend of 2 years... completely awesome

2007-05-23 07:45:53 · answer #10 · answered by SCHWOL 3 · 0 1

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