Sunday, April 22, 2007

God's Existence

A friend just e-mailed me this and I thought it was worth posting:

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering
that I have seen. It's an explanation other people will understand.
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God Does Exists
A lady went to a beauty shop to have her hair cut and
her nails painted and trimmed. As the lady 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 beautician said : "I don't believe that God exists."
"Why do you say that?" asked Sheryl who has MS.
"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."
Then Sheryl thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
she didn't want to start an argument. The beautician just
finished her job and the customer left the shop.
Just after she left the beauty shop, she saw a woman in the street with
long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at all. She looked dirty and unkempt.
Then Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and
she said to the beautician:
"You know what? Beauticians do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised beautician. "I am here, and I am a beautician. And I just worked on you!"
"No!" Sheryl exclaimed. "Beauticians don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and be very unkempt, like that woman outside."
"Ah, but beauticians DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!"- affirmed Sheryl. "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 think God exists, send this to other people--If you think God does
not exist, delete it!


Do you agree? Disagree? Questions and comments...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Same thing a girl said to her teacher.

Teacher: "God mustn't exist if you can't see him"
Girl: "Well, your brain mustn't exist if I can't see it!"

Just an interestin thought. Why must we believe in only something as long as we can see it? Why can't we believe in something We can't see? Hebrews 11:1 says, "Faith is the surety of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see." Will we talk the walk or will we actually start walking the talk?