Existence.
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thatsjustjennaThe 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 God
created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a
question
professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of a question is this? 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 cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody of object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a boy or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; 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?"
he 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 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. 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 not like faith, of love that exist 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 mans name - Albert EINSTEIN
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 God
created evil since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a
question
professor?"
"Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of a question is this? 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 cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody of object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a boy or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; 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?"
he 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 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. 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 not like faith, of love that exist 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 mans name - Albert EINSTEIN
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Date: 2004-08-23 07:12 am (UTC)Sorry for being argumentative, but...
Date: 2004-08-23 03:09 pm (UTC)2. Heat and light are objectively measurable, evil is not.
3. The opposite of evil is good, not God. Surely you think there are good people/deeds that aren't religious?
Re: Sorry for being argumentative, but...
Date: 2004-08-23 06:38 pm (UTC)2. If evil is not measurable, then Charles Manson and all his evil acts, are the same as people who drive large SUVs...Surely you agree that there are degrees of evil. Therefore, evil has some measurement.
3. If the opposite of evil is good, and God is good, then the opposite of evil is God. Good deeds done by those who are not religious are guided by the hand of God, whether they like it or not.
So there.
Re: Sorry for being argumentative, but...
Date: 2004-08-24 02:27 pm (UTC)2. There is no OBJECTIVE measure of evil, so the parallel is faulty. My argument is not that there are no degrees of evil, but that evil seems to be on the negative side of the spectrum and good on the positive. Things can be morally neutral.
3. If the opposite of black is white and snow is white, then the opposite of black is snow? That logic is flawed. To argue your point about God guiding the actions of manking I'll refer to something that Einstein actually did say...
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation...My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God."
Re: Sorry for being argumentative, but...
Date: 2004-08-27 07:15 pm (UTC)Dont be so vain to think you put yourself together.
We, us, and nature among everything else, is far to complex and beautiful, to come from nothing, to just be.
Man is a long, long ways from knowing the real truth.
Our minds are weak, in fact I would say that man has de-evolved.
All that matters is comfort and complacency.
Wow
Date: 2004-08-31 11:54 pm (UTC)