Did God Create All That Exists?
A university professor of Logic challenged his students with this question:
"Did God create everything that exists?"
A student bravely replied, "Yes, He did!"
"God created everything?" the professor doubtingly asked.
"Yes, Sir," the student replied firmly.
The professor countered, "If God created everything, then God created evil; since evil exists and, according to the basic logic principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil."
Before such an answer, the students all became quiet. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that once more, he had proven that the Christian faith is a myth.
One other student then 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 question is that? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?"
The students snickered at the young man's question.
Unperturbed, the young man continued to expound, "Sir, the fact is 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 subject to study when it possesses or transmits energy, and heat is what a body or matter must have to transmit energy. At Absolute Zero (-460 F), there is total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created the word "cold" 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. One cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How would you know how dark a certain space is? By measuring 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 a bit 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. Like darkness and cold, "evil" is a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exists, just as does light and heat. 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
