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This is a story of something that happened a few years ago at USC. There was a professor there that was a committed atheist.
His primary goal for one required class was to spend the entire semester attempting to prove that God couldn't exist. His students were always afraid to argue with him because of his impeccable logic. For twenty years he had taught this class and no one had ever really "gone against him" (you'll see what I mean later). No one would ever go against him because he had a reputation. At the end of ever semester, on the last day of class, he would say to the class of 300 students, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!"
In twenty years, nobody ever stood up. They knew what he was going to do next. He would say, "Because anyone who believes in God is a fool. If God existed, He could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and he can't do it." And every year he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All the students’ could do nothing but stare. Most of the students were convinced that God couldn't exist. Certainly a number of Christians had slipped through, but for twenty years they had been too afraid to stand up.
Well a few years ago there was a freshman who happened to get enrolled in the class. He was a Christian, and he had heard the stories about this professor, but he had to take the class because it was requires for hit major. He was afraid, but for three months that semester he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said, or what the class thought. Nothing they said or did could ever shatter his faith , he hoped. Finally the day came and the professor said, "If there is anyone in this room who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor, and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up in the back of the room.
The professor shouted "YOU FOOL! If nothing I have said all semester has convinced you that God doesn't exist, then you are a fool! If God existed, he could keep this piece of chalk from breaking when it hit the ground!"
He proceeded to drop the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff, onto the pleats of his pants, down his leg, and off his shoe.
As it hit the ground, it simply rolled away, unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he stared at the chalk. He looked at the young man and then ran out of the lecture hall.
The young man who had stood up proceeded to the front of the room and shared his faith in Jesus for the next half hour. Three hundred students stayed and listened as he told of God’s love for them and of His power through Jesus.
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