Who Created Evil?

Current mood: contemplative
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Who Created Evil?

As you read this, I challenge you to really let it's meaning sink in.

This eloquently answers one of the profound questions of life.

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 professor was quite pleased with himself and 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?"

The professor replied "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.

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 degrees F) is the total absence of heat.

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 every day. 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 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

May today there be peace within you.