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Did God Create Evil?
At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being
tough on Christians. At the first class, every semester, he asked if
anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade them and to mock their
statement of faith.
One semester, he asked the question and a young man raised his hand.
The professor asked, "Did God make everything young man?" He
replied "Yes sir he did!" The professor responded, "IF God made
everything, then he made evil." The student didn't have a response
and the professor was happy to once again proved the Christian faith
to be a myth.
Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you
something, sir"? "Yes you may," responded the professor.
The young man stood up and said, "Sir, is there such a thing as cold?"
"Of course there is, what kind of a question is that? Haven't you ever been cold?"
The young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we
consider to be cold, is really an absence of heat. Absolute zero is
when there is absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist. We have only
created that term to describe how we feel when heat is not there."
The young man continued, Sir, is there such a thing as dark?" Once
again the professor responded, "Of course there is." And once again,
the student replied,
"Actually, sir, darkness does not exist. Darkness is really only the absence of light. Darkness is only a term developed to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such a thing as evil?"
The professor responded, "Of course, we have rapes, murders and violence
everywhere in the world, Those thing are evil."
The student replied,
"Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is simply the absence of God.
Evil is a term developed to describe the absence of God. God did not
create evil. It isn't like truth, or love which exist as virtues like
heat or light. Evil is simply the state where God is not present,
like cold without heat, or darkness without light."
The professor had nothing to say.................
Be full of Christ today, there is no room for anything else
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