...because while I may receive poetic revelations about the nature of the universe, when things in my personal world and my anticipatory soul-world begin to crash, a rational analytical voice breaks through to calm in a way that all that my poetic nature can't afford. One of my friends--to many she is remote and unapproachable, many have trouble seeing how deeply loyal and caring her heart is, she can seem bossy and angry, she can cuss like a sailor, she is impatient with ignorant and needy people, and I love her more than most any of my friends--she sent me this today, not having a clue that it was exactly what I needed.
Subject: Who Created Evil?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 Godcreated evil since evil exists, and according to theprincipal that our works define who we are, then God is evil."The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the studentsthat he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you 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 coldis in reality the absence of heat.Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has ortransmits 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 describehow 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 theabsence of light. Light, we can study, but not darkness. In fact we canuse Newton's prism to break white light into many colors andstudy 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 happenswhere 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 atleast 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 todescribe the absence of God.God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when mandoes not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold thatcomes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes whenthere is no light."
The professor sat down.
The young man's name --- Albert Einstein.
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