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.

Påsk
Påsken är den viktigaste kristna högtiden då vi firar Jesu död och uppståndelse. Under påsken instiftade Jesus nattvarden. Under påskhelgen begrundar vi hur Gud i Kristus försonade världen med sig själv genom Jesu död på korset. 
Hur hans blod blev utgjutet för vår skull på Golgata kors. Han kom för att ta bort världens synd. Utan att ha förtjänat det står vi som rättfärdiga inför Gud genom tron på Jesus Kristus. 

Om Jesu lidande, död och uppståndelse
Påsken firas till minne av Jesu död och uppståndelse och är de kristnas viktigaste högtid. 
De viktigaste dagarna i påskfirandet är skärtorsdagen, långfredagen och påskdagen. 

På skärtorsdagen instiftades nattvarden av Jesus. 
Efter måltiden gick han på kvällen till Getsemane trädgård med sina lärjungar där han kom i svår ångest. 
Han bad ivrigt till Gud och svettades blod. 
På natten blev han förråd av Judas och fängslad. 

En skenrättegång genomfördes på natten av de religiösa ledarna och Jesus blev dömd till döden. Judarna hade inte rätt att verkställa dödsdomar, så de band Jesus och överlämnade honom åt den romerske landshövdingen Pontius Pilatus för att  verkställa dödsstraffet. 

På långfredagen blev Jesus hånad och misshandlad av Pilatus soldater och fördes ut till att korsfästas på en plats utanför Jerusalem som heter Golgata. Han blev korsfäst mellan två förbrytare. När Jesus var död stack soldaterna upp ett svärd i sidan på honom och det kom ut blod och vatten. På kvällen blev Jesus lagd i en grav nära Golgata och en sten rullades för gravens öppning.

På påskdagen blev det en stor jordbävning och änglar visade sig. Änglarna talade om för några kvinnor som kommit till Jesu grav att Jesus hade uppstått. Sedan kom Jesus emot dem och hälsade dem.

De skyndade till lärjungarna och talade om att de sett Jesus uppstånden.  
En vaktstyrka som hade placerats vid graven för att vakta den skyndade in till staden för att berätta om allt som hade hänt vid graven och att Jesu grav var tom.

Jesus lever - halleluja!

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