God DOES Exist!
Following is a wonderful analogy for skeptics and believers
alike. It is a beautiful analogy of why
God allows pain and suffering, and very easy to understand.
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his
beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they talked about so many things
and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the
barber said: "I don't believe that
God exists." "Why do you say
that?" asked the customer. "Well,
you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell
me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor
pain. I can't imagine loving a God who
would allow all of these things." The
customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to
start an argument. The barber finished
his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long,
stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard.
He looked dirty and un-kept. The
customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the
barber: "You know what? Barbers do
not exist." "How can you say
that?" asked the surprised barber.
"I am here, and I am a barber.
And I just worked on you!" "No!"
the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there
would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man
outside." "Ah, but barbers DO
exist! The problem is that people do not
come to me." "Exactly!"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist!
The problem is that people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why
there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING! "Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet."
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