Read this.. > >Did God create everything that exists? Does evil exist? Did God
> >create
> >evil?
> >
> >A University professor at a well known institution of higher
> >learning 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, he certainly did," the student replied.
> >
> >The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created
> >evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that
> >our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."
> >
> >The student became quiet and did not respond to the professor's
> >hypothetical definition.. The professor, quite pleased with himself,
> >boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the
> >Christian faith was a myth.
> >
> >Another student 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 this? Of course it exists. Have you never
> >been cold?"
> >
> >The other 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 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter
> >becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. 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 everyday. It is in the daily examples 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
> >
> >A true story.