Does evil exist? Did
God create evil?
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 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 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
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