A riddle is making the rounds through e-mail. You may have already seen it, but if you haven't, I think you'll enjoy it. It is said that when asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten students got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford university seniors. Here's the riddle:
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich want it, and if you eat it, you'll die?
What is it?
Think about it and then scroll down for the answer.
The answer is "nothing". Nothing is greater than God, nothing is more evil than the devil, the poor have nothing, the rich want nothing, and if you eat nothing you will die!
It seems so obvious. Maybe that's why younger children have an easier time answering it than educated adults. As we get more educated and more sophisticated, we look for deeper answers. But no matter how much we?? learn, the question, "What is greater than God?" (and anything else attached to it) will always have the same answer.
"I will remember the works of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. I will also meditate on all Your work, and talk of Your deeds. Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; Who is so great a God as our God? You are the God who does wonders..." (Psalm 77:11-14a).
什么比神更伟大
有个谜语正藉着电子邮件在网上流传。或许你已经读过，假若还没有，我想你也会喜欢读一读的。据说：猜谜语的人中，
80%的幼儿园小朋友回答对了，相映成趣的是，斯坦福大学的四年级生中只有17%回答正确。谜语是这样的：
“什么比神更伟大，比魔鬼更邪恶，穷人拥有它，富人想要它，要是你吃它，你就会死， 它是什么？”
好好思考一下，再来瞧瞧下面的答案：
答案是：“没有什么”。没有什么比神更伟大，没有什么比魔鬼更邪恶，穷人有的是“没有”，富人想要的“没有”了，而
如果你吃的“没有”，你就会死！
似乎很简单，正因为如此，年幼的孩子比受过高等教育的成年人反而更容易答对。我们所受的教育越多，阅历越深厚，我们
就会寻求更有深度的回答。然而不管我们学问多大，“什么比神更伟大”（其它几个提问隶属于它）这个问题的答案始终是
不变的。
“我要题说耶和华所行的。我要记念你古时的奇事。我也要思想你的经营，默念你的作为。神啊，你的作为是洁净的。有何
神大如神呢？你是行奇事的神……”（诗77：11-14上）
（浙江徐煊翻译）
