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[heavenseeker]

I got this in a e-mail



Who Created Evil?

As you read this, I challenge you to really let it's meaning sink in.

This eloquently answers one of the most profound questions of life.

Did God Create Evil?

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 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, "May I ask you a question, Professor?"

"Of course," replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

The professor replied "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. 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 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





good isnt it

[catholicinsd]

"The Grandmothers and the Mothers want their children to live in peace."

Mrs. Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel

[lifeteenchick527]

dance as though no one is watchin, sing as though no one is listening, and love like uve never be hurt

God
Bless
LTC

[ktbeth]

Look at my signature to see a few great quotes!

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
P. J. O'Rourke

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'Rourke

Never fight an inanimate object.
P. J. O'Rourke

Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O'Rourke

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." -Leonardo DaVinci

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." -Michelangelo

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso

[Tindomiel]

I never travel without my diary: one should always have something sensational to read on the train.
-Oscar Wilde

[Cow of Shame]

[quote name='heavenseeker' date='Feb 3 2006, 06:08 PM']I got this in a e-mail
Who Created Evil?

The professor sat down.
The young man's name --- Albert Einstein
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Not really since it's an [b]URBAN MYTH[/b]

Along with the one about the professor & the chalk.

[url="http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp"][u]CHECK IT AT SNOPES[/u][/url]

Edited February 4, 2006 by Cow of Shame

[goldbug16]

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart fom himself because it is not there, there is no such thing"
Mere Christianity- C.S. Lewis
I love that book!!!

[Deeds]

[quote name='Cow of Shame' date='Feb 4 2006, 01:58 AM']Not really since it's an [b]URBAN MYTH[/b]

Along with the one about the professor & the chalk.

[url="http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp"][u]CHECK IT AT SNOPES[/u][/url]
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You beat me to it.

I like the P.J. O'Rourke ones! I'm too lazy to list my favourite quotes, but Douglas Adams has some crackers (in fact, pretty much every sentence in every book he wrote and more besides.)

[heavenseeker]

[quote name='Cow of Shame' date='Feb 3 2006, 07:58 PM']Not really since it's an [b]URBAN MYTH[/b]

Along with the one about the professor & the chalk.

[url="http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp"][u]CHECK IT AT SNOPES[/u][/url]
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even if it is the concept of it is what i was getting at

[Norseman82]

"Jason, I'm your father. You don't lie to me - you lie to girls!"

- Rodney Dangerfield as Thornton Melon in "Back to School"

[Norseman82]

"This guy's walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can't get out.
"A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up, 'Hey you. Can you help me out?' The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on.
"Then a priest comes along and the guy shouts up, 'Father, I'm down in this hole can you help me out?' The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on
"Then a friend walks by, 'Hey, Joe, it's me can you help me out?' And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, 'Are you stupid? Now we're both down here.' The friend says, 'Yeah, but I've been down here before and I know the way out.'"


- John Spencer as Leo McGarry in "The West Wing" (Noel episode) ©

[Lil Red]

Why do croutons come in stale packages? It's just stale bread to begin with. -George Carlin

For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. -Romans 7:16, 19

Authentic mercy is moving and beautiful precisely because it presupposes, and adheres to, binding statements of right and wrong. Unlike...cheap forgiveness..genuine mercy takes good and evil seriously and recognizes justice as its partner rather than its enemy. Without this perspective, forgiveness is not mercy at all; it's just indifference. Its practitioner looks upon good and evil alike with the inane smile of an idiot. -From a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal

You tried your best and failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try. - Homer Simpson

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

[Thy Geekdom Come]

"You, what have you done by taking Christ out of the schools? You have produced enemies of social order, subversives. On the contrary, what have we gained by putting Christ into the schools of the children of criminals? We have transformed these misfortunate ones into honest and virtuous young people that you wanted to abandon to their sad fate or toss into insane asylums!" -Blessed Bartholomew Longo, convert to Catholicism from the satanic priesthood

"Flip me over, I'm done on this side." -St. Lawrence, while being grilled to death in ancient Rome

"Jesus, Jesus, Jesus..." -St. Joan of Arc, her last words

"You see, my dear, Eve only realized she was naked after she ate the apple." -Blessed John XXIII, handing an apple to a scantily-clad woman at a conference

Joseph Stalin: "How many [military] divisions does the pope have?"

Pope Pius XII: "Mr. Stalin will meet my legionsin the other world!"

"Get out of my sight! Away! We grant a blessing to no one who provokes the world to war!" -St. Pius X to Emperor Franz Josef

[djc08]

[Quote]"You see, my dear, Eve only realized she was naked after she ate the apple." -Blessed John XXIII, handing an apple to a scantily-clad woman at a conference[Quote*]

ROFL..