Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

Atheist professor and Christian student: God is evil?

Atheist professor and Christian student: God is evil?

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning 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, he certainly did,” the student replied.
The professor answered, “If God created everything; then God created evil. And, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then we can assume God is evil.”
The student became quiet and did not answer the professor’s hypothetical definition. 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, “May 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 other 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; and 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 examples 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.”
(Red: This student probably wasn’t Einstein and the story is most likely not true. It can never be used as a scientific argument, but has to be read as what it is; a metaphorical uplifting story and thought-provoker

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A New Season

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted...A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to throw away; A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; Ecclesiastes 3:1-2, 6-7 (NKJV)

Solomon said it perfectly when he penned this Scripture above, and spoke forth the words, "To everything there is a season."  I have seen this Biblical truth come to pass in my life as there have in fact, been various seasons that have brought on new opportunities, challenges, trials and transformations in my life as a man, more importantly, as a Christian man.  

I have not always made the right choice when making choices - but have always been given the opportunity to do so.  As time goes on, and my relationship and walk with the Lord becomes stronger I begin to change in the way I think about and look at things, and the way that I handle them is merely a byproduct of those changes.
But I can clearly see that it was the changing seasons that ushered in each one of these profound changes within my life.

I received an email the other day from a friend of mine in Minnesota that included an update in Haiti following a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake that had devastated this country at 9:53pm on January 12, 2010.  This earthquake would forever change the life of every person who calls Haiti their home, and thousands of others who have come to assist those in need.  And so it was the beginning of a "New season" in the lives of everyone involved - for some it was the end of this life here on earth and it ushered in a season to be face-to-face with God.  For those who were left to deal with this event, it offers an opportunity to call out to God, and to either rekindle, or to begin a new relationship with Him.  

God was there in Haiti before the earthquake, during the earthquake, and He remains there after as well.  As for the lives of those involved, He cares greatly - but He cares more for our spiritual life, than our physical death.  For those who know Christ and the saving grace of God, death is simply a threshold into eternity with Him, and it offers a perfect peace and joy that could never be experienced here, no matter what our circumstances may be.

Within this update that I had received was a testimony of God's work within the lives of the Haitian people, as there are hundreds that are beginning to attend a "New Christian believers class."  It stated that as the ongoing aftershocks continue to hit the decimated countryside, these people are turning to Jesus for their hope.  

There was an amazing testimony of a man named, Bauvaisa - renowned powerful and self-proclaimed "Voodoo Priest" that had recently repented of his sin, and given his life to Jesus Christ.  And he was now attending a class to learn more about His Savior.

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

Bauvais had told them, that "In 2008 and again in 2009, he was going to give his heart to Jesus but didn't... 'But, in 2010, God shook me up...!" He said, 'I am full of the Holy Spirit, not the spirit of the devil.  My prayers are different! I read the Bible every day!  But now, I see I have something in my house that belongs to the devil.  I need to get it out!'   He continued, 'Your first enemy is yourself... Stay away from bad friends.  Stay away from bad music.  Pray.  Read your Bible.  Come to church where you can learn from these people who know more than you do!'  

Those who knew the "Old man" that Bauvais used to be had this to say, "Since he was converted, he is radically changed!  He stood up in class and began to preach to everyone in the class like he had been a preacher for 15 years!"

Bauvais' Christian transformation has had an impact on many people in Haiti, including his friendJean Pierre, a former fellow voodoo worshiper who had this to say after witnessing Bauvais' transformation; "I am not going home until I give my life to Jesus.  Give me the Jesus you serve!"  He then prayed to receive Jesus in his life!  

It truly is a "New Season" for Bauvais, Jean Pierre, and many others in Haiti.   God is doing an amazing work within the hearts and lives of these people.  God desires to do that very same work with each of us as well, and the great news is, we don't have to wait for God to shake up our lives to do it - it can happen today if we are willing to allow Him to have His way in our life.  We just need to be willing to start a "New Season."

I would like for you to take time to stop for a moment and pray for those in Haiti - pray for their salvation, and for their physical needs to be met.  Pray for those who are selflessly serving the needs of others over there.  Hey, perhaps God is speaking to you as you read this; to be a part of the "New Season" that is occurring in Haiti, and maybe you're not sure how to help.  Jesus gave a parable to the answer to this question in the following verses.

"Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.' Matthew 25:37-40 (NKJV)

Hey Christian, I am not going to write a "Study" or a "Personal Inventory" question in this devotional like I usually do, but I will give you some "Application" for this devotional today.

 APPLICATION:  "Let's help those who are hungry, thirsty, naked, and those who are sick as if they were Jesus."