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Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?
This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering in the world………
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work, they began to have a good 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.
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 unkempt. 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! That’s what happens when people do not come to me.”
“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 !!!!!!!
Reblogged this on The ObamaCrat™ and commented:
One way of looking at the suffering & sickness in the world…not my way, but it is one way.
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excellent analogy!
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Theodicy seems impossible, but perhaps the question should not be why bad things happen to good people, but why bad things happen for good people. There is no progress without suffering. “Long is the way, And hard that out of Hell leads up to light.”
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🙂 That was sweet!
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I LOVE IT!
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I WILL be re-tweeting this!
Thanks for sharing =)
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Something like this happened to me years ago. I was very poor and convinced money did not exist. But I went outside and was run-over by a Rolls Royce.
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Great story!
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Gotta love that! Thanks for the inspiration. Haha, mr. barber!
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Reblogged this on Hunt FOR Truth on wordpress and commented:
LOVE this! ~ Eric
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I really like this.
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Reblogged this on Good Stewardship and commented:
A must read! Thank you for posting this up Coach Muller! 🙂
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Good analogy!
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Have shared it on FB. This is wonderful!
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