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The university
professor challenged his students with this question.
"Did God create every thing that exists?"
A
student 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 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 a
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
(-460? 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 wave lengths 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 every where in the
world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To his the student
replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least is 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.
*** I have no idea if this can really be attributed to Mr.
Einstein. Some would say not. But the lesson is worth
taking into consideration. -- Linda
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