DOES EVIL EXIST?
Does evil exist? A university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied: "Yes, He did!" The professor said, "Did God create everything?" "Yes, sir," the student replied. The professor responded, "If God created everything, then He also created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle of our work that defines who we are, God is therefore evil." The student was silent in the face of such a response.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had once again proven that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question, Professor?" "Of course," the professor replied.
The student retorted: “Professor, does cold exist?” “What kind of question is that? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?” the professor retorted.
The young man replied: "In fact, sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider to be cold is actually the absence of heat. Every individual or object possesses or transmits energy. Heat is produced by a body or matter that transmits energy. Absolute Zero (-460°F) is the complete absence of heat; at this temperature, all matter becomes inert and unable to react. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe what we feel when we have no heat."
The student continued: "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor replied, "Of course it does!"
The student replied: “You are still wrong, sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in fact the absence of light. We can study light, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton’s prism to break white light into its various colors and study the different wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A single ray of light can burst into a world of darkness and illuminate it.”
How can you measure the space that darkness occupies? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't that true? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor: “Sir, does evil exist?” Now uncertain, the professor replied, “Of course, as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the everyday examples of man’s inhumanity toward man. It is in the multitude of crimes and violence all over the world. These manifestations are nothing but evil!”
The student replied: “Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist in itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, which exist just as light and heat do. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have the love of God in his heart. It is 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 was: Albert Einstein
