This is one of the best explanations

of why God allows pain and suffering

that I have seen. It's an explanation

people will understand.


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 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!

What happens is, people

do not come to me."

"Exactly!"-

affirmed the customer.

"That's the point!

God, too, DOES exist!

What happens, is, 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."

If you KNOW God exists,

send this to other people---

If you think God doesn't exist,

then just delete it!