Who Created Evil? |
As you read this, I challenge you to really let it's meaning sink in.
This eloquently answers one of the profound questions of life. The professor answered, "If God created
everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal
that our works define who we are, then God is evil." Another student raised his hand and said, "Can
I ask you a question professor?" The student stood up and asked, "Professor ,
does cold exist?" The students snickered at the young man's question. The student continued. "Professor, does
darkness exist?" 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. 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 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 |