Does Evil Exist?

Does evil exist? 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 was quite pleased with himself and 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. 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 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. The young man's name? -- Believed to be Albert Einstein, but cannot be proven.

Manipulation: love with agenda

I think most people run around life attempting to fill their ‘needs’. It is self focused and lead to fruit of ‘success’, but ultimately end up in harm. In the world of the court system here in the USA, any evidence obtained from any type of illegal means is ‘fruit from a forbidden tree’. This evidence cannot be allowed as evidence or allowed to be brought into court itself. So if drugs were seized without the right to have it or the right to be in the place when the evidence was found it is thrown out as if it was never found.

With this thinking, if we start something out of personal need it is going to ultimately end in some type of self righteous fruit. What if Papa freed us from every need and freed us to really love people without agenda. What if we had the ability to always give without expecting or Loving without the thought of receiving love in return. What if we pressed into Jesus with enough abandonment so that we legitimately change and we become motivated by only the Love that we see Jesus use. What would the world look like if every person that professed Jesus as their Savior started to live out of the “freedom from needs” that is available to us as “believers. It may cause a utopia type culture.I understand the thought of an ideal utopia. Greece, during the classical age, was viewed in my understanding as a type of utopian era. A time when thought and expression was not only accepted, but celebrated. It was also a time of free love without boundaries. The best things that came from that time, in my humble opinion, was the art and sculptures of that time. People could be vulnerable, yet not judged. Thinking was focused into self and generated a lot of self improving times. It was a time of sexual perversions that rivals that of areas like Thailand where children are sold into sexual slavery. I believe that is a product of love generated towards self.

If people really followed the God of Love, what would society look like?

Tirzah

I read in a book that I am compared to the city of Tirzah by someone that is very important to me.

I looked up Tirzah and it has set a paradigm in my mind that has permeated throughout my thinking. Tirzah was a city in biblical times that was the very beautiful.

Tirzah means "she is beautiful". Jewish scholars believed the beauty of this city was so astonishing it attracted many "unwanted" people of the time. It rivaled the city that the accepted people of the time set up as a capitol.

Tirzah was eventually destroyed, but it represents something to me that is essential in this journey of life.

I cannot be "attractive" to just those who accept me. There must be something in me or the way I conduct myself that arouses interest in both those who know me and accept me and those who could care less.