(Edit) Just want to confirm what was said in the original posting "great food for thought, even if it may or may not be properly credited." that this is a parable (read ficticious story) and a good one that makes you think about important stuff. I just want to make it clear that this is not attributable to Senor Einstein. Please see Snopes Claim: While a student, Albert Einstein humiliated an atheist professor by using the "Evil is the absence of God" argument on him. Status: False.
I used that point to prove that god exists, in my philosophy class. As an introduction to the course we split up into "thiests", "athiests", and "agnostics"(uncertain). I had read that in a chain letter just a couple weeks before the class, glad i did, not many ppl could argue it.
Hi Guys, Sorry but I must have over looked this thread when it first surfaced...ou: It's my personal Christian belief (as I'm sure many other Christians believe also...or at least they should! ) and that is that ANY question pertaining to GOD, Jesus Christ, holiness, good, evil, Satan, The Devil so on and so forth ABSOLUTELY NEEDS to be addressed by and thru GOD's word THE Holy Bible! Afterall, ask ANY counterfeiting or forgery expert what they study to identify a fake or a forgery?? They will tell you infatically that ONLY the authentic "real-deal" is studied. IF one knows the real thing EVERY counterfeit can be identified and exposed!:Smarty: Hosea 4:6... My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget my children. The "people" spoken of here are Christians. THE "knowledge" spoken of here is the LORD's word, THE HOLY BIBLE!:TU: Here are just a couple of King James verses that came to mind when I noticed the thread headline... Isaiah 45:5... I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: Isaiah 45:6... That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there isnone beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. Isaiah 45:7... I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. St John 1:1... IN THE beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. St John 1:2... The same was in the beginning with God. St John 1:3... All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. St John 1:4... In him was life; and the life was the light of men. St John 1:5... And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Hence the LORD did create evil...that evil started with Lucifer's vanity (he was THE most beautiful and highest angel). He and the other 1/3 of the angels who decided to rebel with him and attempt to overthrow heaven were expelled from the 3rd heaven. Isaiah 14:12... How thou art fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! Isaiah 14:13... For though hast said in thine heart, I will assend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of congregation, in the sides of the north. Isaiah 14:14... I will assend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High. The LORD GOD created Lucifer also known as Satan and The Serpent (as well as many,many other names), whom thru deceiving Eve brought sin into the world and judgement unto the soul that sinneth. Genesis 3:1... Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:2... And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: Genesis 3:3... But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. Genesis 3:4... And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Genesis 3:5... For God doth know in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be open, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:6... And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. Genesis 3:7... And the eyes of both were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. SIN HAD AT THAT MOMENT ENTERED THE WORLD....
