Did God create Evil?
This will make you think for a while.
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 when asked
if anyone was a Christian. 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 have 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 thing as cold?" "Of course there is, what kind of
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 man developed to
describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such thing as evil?"
The professor responded, "Of course. We have rapes, and murders and
violence everywhere in the world, those things are evil."
The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is
simply the absence of God. Evil is a term man 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."
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