A Great True Story

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Does Evil Exist????

 

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, and according to the principle that our

works Define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

 

The student became quiet and 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

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 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, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit

energy. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and 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.

 

The young man's name -- Albert Einstein

 

A true story.