【第14期】上帝、恶、冷、黑暗
霞子姊妹 翻译
一位大学教授问了一个问题来挑战他的学生们：“上帝创造了万有吗？”
一个学生大胆地回答说：“是的，上帝创造了万有！”
“上帝创造了万有？”教授又问。
“是的，先生。”这位学生回答。
教授说：“如果上帝创造了万有，既然恶存在，那上帝也创造了恶。根据我们所做的事决定我们就是什么的基本原理，所以，上帝是恶。”
那位学生在教授之结论面前哑口无言。教授对自己非常满意、骄傲，因为他再次在学生们面前证明了基督信仰的神话性。
另外一位学生举起手说：“我可以问你一个问题吗，教授？”
“当然”，教授回答说。
这位学生站起来问道，“教授，冷存在吗？”
“这是什么样的问题？当然存在啦。你从来没有冷过吗？”学生们都诧异地望着那位同学。
那位学生说：“先生，冷实际上是不存在的。按照物理的规律，冷实际上是因着热能的缺乏。从每一个个体和物质可以看出他们都有能量或可以传送能量。绝对的零下温度（-460）是完全的无热能状态，所有的物质都变得迟钝和对温度不产生任何反应能力。冷是不存在的。我们将低温的感觉用‘冷’来表示。”
那位学生继续又问：“教授，黑暗存在吗？”
“当然存在了！”教授回答。
那学生说：“教授，您又错了。黑暗也不存在。黑暗实际上是指无光的状态。我们可以研究光，但是我们却不能研究黑暗。事实上我们用牛顿的棱镜就可以把白色的光变成很多颜色再来研究每一个颜色的波。但是您不可以测量黑暗。一个简单的光亮就可以打破世界的黑暗、照亮黑暗。怎么可以知道一个地方有多黑呢？你需要量有多少光照射出来，不是吗？黑暗是人用来形容无光的状态。”
最后这位年轻人又问教授：“先生，恶存在吗？”
教授开始有点不敢肯定地回答：“当然了，我刚才已说过了。我们每天都见到恶，这是人对人的无人道的日常例子。世界上的各种犯罪和暴力到处都是，这不是别的，都是恶。”
那位学生说：“先生，恶并不存在，至少并不是自己存在。简单地说，恶是因为没有上帝的同在，就像是黑暗和冷一样，是人用来形容没有上帝同在的状态。上帝没有造恶。恶不像信心和爱，光和热，恶是当人们心中没有上帝的爱时的结果。就像冷的出现是因为没有热能，或者黑暗的临到是因为没有光一样。”
教授坐下……
那位年轻人的名字就是：爱因斯坦。
英文版
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, 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 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 — Albert Einstein
注：感谢霞子姊妹惠寄本刊！文章引用自霞子博客： http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4f6489e701000b1n.html
