Did God Create Everything???
(This little story has been going from one e mail address to another for some
time. I do believe it originated from:
Margi
Harrell's Web site:
The LLERRAH
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 a 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. 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. 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 had nothing more to say............
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