House Church Talk - The Professor

[Tim Poole]

The Professor
Author: Unknown

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 God created
evil, since evil exists, and according to the
principal that our works
define who we are, then God is evil".

The student became quiet before such an answer. 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, "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 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. Every body 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 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?"

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 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, or
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.

"For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in
wickedness: neither shall
evil dwell with thee." - Psalm 5:4