
This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and
suffering that I have heard...
A man went to a barbershop to have
his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
conversation. 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 a loving 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.
He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and
entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:
and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!"
they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and
untrimmed beards, like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too,
DOES exist!
That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look
to Him for help.
That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."
BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!