A university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
一名大學教授向他的學生提出了這個挑戰. 他問學生: 上帝是否創造了所有存在的一切？
A student bravely replied “yes, he did!”
一名學生勇敢地回答說，「是，他創造了!」
“God created everything?” The professor asked.
「上帝創造了一切？」教授問。
“Yes, sir,” the student replied.
「是的，先生」，這名學生回答。
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.
這位教授對他自己相當滿意，並且對學生吹噓說，再一次，他證明了耶穌基督的信念是個神話。
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.”
「這是什麼樣的問題？當然它存在。你難道從未感覺過冷嗎？」其他學生都在竊笑這名年輕人所提出來的問題。
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 and every 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 too little heat.”
The student continued. “Professor, does darkness exist?”
學生繼續問，「請問教授，黑暗是否存在？」
The professor responded, “Of course it does.”
教授回應說，「它當然存在。」
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?”
最後年輕人問教授，「先生，罪惡是否存在？」
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.”
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