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.

Everything got started in him and finds
its purpose in him. (Colossians 1:16b)

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