-Evil?-
A university professor once challenged his students:
"Did God create all things that exist?"
One student bravely stated immediately:
"Of course!"
The professor then quizzed him:
"If God created everything, and if evil exists, and going by the principal that our works define who we are, then that means God created evil."
The student became quiet. The professor, pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christianity was but a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
"Can I ask you a question professor? Does cold exist?"
The professor scoffed at his question and said
:"What kind of question is that? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"
The young man replied:
"In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is but the absence of heat."
"Every body or object can be studied if it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or object have or transmit heat energy. 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 is in reality the absence of light, Light we can study, but not darkness. You cannot measure darkness. How can you know how dark a certain place 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 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 tat man creates 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 is like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
Who was this young man?
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