barrykind
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Did God create Evil? This will make you think for a while.
>
> 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 when asked if anyone was a Christian.
> 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 have 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
> thing as cold?"
>
> "Of course there is, what kind of 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 man
> 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,
> and murders and violence everywhere in the world,
> those things are evil."
>
> The student replied, "Actually, sir, evil does not
> exist. Evil is simply the absence of God. Evil is a
> term man developed to describe the absence of God. God
> did not create evil. It isn't like truth, or love,
> which exist as virtues. Evil is simply the state where
> God is not present, like cold without heat or darkness
> without light."
>
> The professor had nothing to say............
>
> Be full of Christ today, there is no room for anything
> else.........
Sent by a freind~~
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The HEART of the issue is truly the issue of the HEART!
John 3:3;Mark 8:34-38;James 1:27
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