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Does
God Exist?
The
Bible says to have an answer for why you believe
to those who ask you. This is a good example of
an answer to one of the most common reasons sinners
give for ignoring God and His goodness.
A man went to a barber shop to have his hair and his
beard cut as always. He started to have a good
conversation with the barber who attended him.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
Suddenly, they touched the subject of God. The barber
said: "Look man, I don't believe that God exists as you
say."
"Why do you say that?" asked the client.
"Well, it's so easy, you just have to go out in
the street to realize that God does not exist. Oh,
tell me, if God existed, would there be so many sick
people? Would there be abandoned children? If God
existed, there would be no suffering nor pain. I
can't think of loving a God who permits all of these
things."
The client stopped for a moment thinking, but he
didn't want to respond so as to cause an argument.
The barber finished his job and the client went
out of the shop. Just after he left the barber shop he
saw a man in the street with a long hair and beard (it
seems that it had been a long time since he had his cut
and he looked so untidy).
Then the client again entered the barber shop and he
said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not
exist."
"How can you say they don't exist?" asked the
barber.
"Well, I am here and I am a barber."
"No!" the client exclaimed. "They don't exist
because
if they did there would be no people with long hair
and beard like that man who walks in the street."
"Ah, barbers do exist, what happens is that people do
not come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed the client. "That's the
point.
God 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."
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