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 principal 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.
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