【赫临译笔】邪恶是上帝创造的吗

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邪恶是上帝创造的吗

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       在一个著名的高等学府里，一位大学教授问了学生们这样一个问题：“一切存在的东西都是上帝创造的吗？”一个学生勇敢地回答：“是的，都是。”

        “上帝创造了一切吗？”教授问，“是的，先生，当然了。”这个学生答道。“如果上帝创造了一切，那么上帝就创造了邪恶。因为邪恶是存在的，根据善恶由我们的所作所为来判定的原则，可以推出上帝是邪恶的。”

        该学生沉默了，没有答复教授的假设性推论。因此，自鸣得意的教授向学生们吹嘘他再次证明了基督教信仰是荒诞不经的。

        另一名学生举手问：“我可以问您一个问题吗？”“当然，”教授回答。这个学生站起来问：“教授，寒冷存在吗？”“这是什么话？当然存在，你从来没有感觉过寒冷吗？”其它学生对年轻人的问题暗暗发笑。

        接下来年轻人回答：“先生，事实上，寒冷并不存在。根据物理学原理，我们认为的寒冷其实只是没有热量。具有能量或转移能量的万事万物都可以作为研究对象，是热量使人体或物质具有或传递能量。绝对零度即华氏零下四百六十度是完全没有热量的理想状态，在这个温度下，所有物质都呈惰性，不能相互反应。寒冷并不存在，我们创造这个词来形容没有热量时的感觉。

        这个学生继续提问：“教授，黑暗存在吗？”教授回答：“当然存在。”该学生回答：“先生，您又错了。黑暗也不存在。黑暗其实是没有光明。我们可以研究光明，但不能研究黑暗。事实上，我们可以用牛顿的棱镜把白光分解成许多颜色，研究每种颜色不同的波长。你不能测量黑暗，只需一缕微光就可以打破黑暗，带来光明。你怎样判断一个特定的地方到底有多黑？你测量现存的光的强度。难道不是吗？黑暗只是人们用来形容没有光明时的一个字眼。”

        最后，年轻人问教授：“阁下，邪恶存在吗？”现在教授不太有把握地回答：“当然，如前所述，我们每天都能看到邪恶。每天都有人与人之间不人道的例子，世界各地犯罪和暴力比比皆是，这些表现不是邪恶是什么？”

        该学生对此做出回答：“邪恶并不存在，至少邪恶本身并不存在。邪恶只是上帝不存在时的状态。正如黑暗和寒冷一样，这是一个用来形容上帝不在时的词汇。上帝没有创造邪恶。邪恶只是当人们心中没有上帝之爱时的表现。这正如没有热量出现寒冷，没有光明出现黑暗一样。

        最后，教授坐下了，问：“年轻人，你是谁？”“先生，我叫爱因斯坦， 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦。”

附：原文

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question: "Did God create everything that exists? And a student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!"

"God created everything? The professor asked. "Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied. The professor next asked, "If God created everything,then God created evil. And since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, we can assume that God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not respond to the professor's hypothetical statement. Sothe professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the class 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 that? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question.

Then the young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to thelaws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody or object is when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes abody or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-460°F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reacting at that temperature. Cold doesnot exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have noheat.

The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" And the professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you're 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 measuredarkness. 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 humans 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've already said. We see it everyday. It's in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It's 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 untoitself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It's 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 humans do not have God's love presentin their hearts. It's like the cold that comes when there's no heat, or the darkness that comes when there's no light.?

Finally, the professor sat down and asked, "Young man, who are you?" "Sir, my name is Einstein, Albert Einstein."

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ヮ成熟、羙°

丛中笑 发表于 2014-3-17 16:26
欣赏！

谢老师鼓励。

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ヮ成熟、羙° 发表于 2014-3-17 21:26
谢老师鼓励。