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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 principle 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 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 everyday. 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
Oops we exclaim when an accident has taken place.
Oops we mumble when a sin has been committed, and we don’t feel the need to repent, but rather make an excuse. “Oops! It’s me again, Lord,” and eventually we pray for forgiveness. It is the way we are – for yes, we all have greeted oops as a reality more times than we would like to admit. And
whether it is overt or by chance, because it is never something we are
proud of we go to our bank of excuses and write another check.
Oh, our bank account of excuses never runs dry. “Oops, but it’s not my fault, I’m genetically disabled.” Or when we practice what we know is wrong do we too often comment, “Oops I’m so glad it’s all their fault and not mine”?
Is it possible we need more oops cried out on bended knees? Would we then make fewer excuses and quicker improvements? Do
we need to accept the fact that over 2000 years ago a baby Jesus was
born into a world of Oopsism and that the only way to save the world
from it is for each individual, one by one by one to pray, “Lord, I make
mistakes, too many of them, and they deserve a better response than
just oops.”
QUOTES FROM SIXTY PLUS AND NOT HOLDING (Serialization of One of Neil’s book that can be found on his other blog Wyrick’s Writings)
FEAR COMES TO CALL?
I almost drowned once. It is
a terrifying experience. One gets very used to breathing. I had taught
swimming in summer camp. Passed the Red Cross Life Saving course.
Water-skied 50 miles an hour. Now I found I could not even stand to have the water flow over my face when I took a shower.
So I had two choices. Give in to my fear or fight it.
I
fought it. Stuck my head in a few inches of water in a basin for five
seconds, then ten and finally a minute. I kept working on my private
demon until one day, six month later, I was behind a ski boat with ski
rope in hand. I was filled with panic, not just fear. I skied anyway. I
fell and did not drown. I began to overcome the anxiety.
I
refused to have a love affair with fear that could have become a
permanent downer. Did I completely conquer my fear? No. Was I better off
than if I had given in? Definitely.
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number of years ago two scientists conducted an experiment with a
sheep. They tied a piece of wire around the leg of a normal sheep in the
midst of other sheep. Then at regular intervals they would send an
electric shock through the wire making the leg twitch. The sheep’s
behavior remained normal. He ate well, slept well, acted quite nicely,
twitching appendage and all. Then the scientists added another factor.
They
began to ring a bell ten seconds before they administered the shock.
Within a very short period of time the sheep began to demonstrate all
the symptoms of severe anxiety neurosis. His eating habits went from bad
to worse. He couldn't sleep. He took to avoiding the other sheep. He
became highly nervous and agitated.
It is
the same with all the people who every day promise themselves it is
going to be a bad day, and then work very hard at making their prophecy
come true.
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Unfortunately,
when Abe was only nine his mother died of milk fever, as did many in
that time. His widowed father soon married again and if one had to have
a stepmother, Lincoln could have done no better than Sally Bush. This woman, who for the rest of his life he referred to as his angel mother, did all she could to encourage his father to look more kindly on his love of learning.
It
was an exercise in futility for Tom Lincoln considered such bookish
behavior a waste of time. This was how Abe came to regard his father’s
occupational choices.
Having two such remarkable mothers who so greatly influenced this gangling youth could almost be called providential.
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