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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, 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 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 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 man's
name --- Albert Einstein