I thought this was a great explaination.............
This is great! Never saw it explained this way before . . . Simple & clear!! Did God create Evil?
At a certain college there was a professor with a reputation for being tough on Christians. At the
first class, every semester, he asked if anyone was a Christian and proceeded to degrade them
and to mock their statement of faith. One semester, he asked the question and a young man
raised his hand. The professor asked, "Did God make everything young man?" He replied "Yes sir
he did!" The professor responded, "IF God made everything, then he made evil" The student
didn't have a response and the professor was happy to once again proved the Christian faith to
be a myth. Then another man raised his hand and asked, "May I ask you something, sir?" "Yes,
you may," responded the professor. The young man stood up and said, "Sir, is there such a thing
as cold?" "Of course there is, what kind of a question is that? Haven't you ever been cold?" The
young man replied, "Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. What we consider to be cold, is really an
absence of heat. Absolute zero is when there is absolutely no heat, but cold does not really exist.
We have only created that term to describe how we feel when heat is not there." The young
man continued, Sir, is there such a thing as dark?" Once again the professor responded, "Of
course there is." And once again, the student replied, "Actually, sir, darkness does not exist.
Darkness is really only the absence of light. Darkness is only a term developed to describe what
happens when there is no light present." Finally, the young man asked, "Sir, is there such a thing
as evil?" The professor responded, "Of course, we have rapes, murders and violence everywhere
in the world, Those thing are evil." The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not exist. Evil is
simply the absence of God. Evil is a term developed to describe the absence of God. God did not
create evil. It isn't like truth, or love which exist as virtues like heat or light. Evil is simply the state
where God is not present, like cold without heat, or darkness without light." The professor had
nothing to say...............
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