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| Professor and Students |
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 principal that our works
define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."
The
student became quiet and did not answer 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. 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;
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. 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.
Story source - Unknown...
(Somewhere from world wide web...)
