Barbers and God exist!

Friday, 16th March 2007

A colleague of mine once asked me whether there are occasions where I do not have anything to blog about. I told him that when I do, I will blog about songs.

Well, today is another one of those days that I have "bloggers' block", so it was really timely that my co-leader sent me an interesting email this morning with the subject God Exists! He said it was an interesting angle to evangelism, which indeed it is.

I have gotten his permission to reproduce it as today's blog entry.

Have a good weekend ahead! I'll be flying to Birmingham (via Frankfurt) tomorrow, so I will probably blog about my adventures in Europe until I return to Singapore the following Saturday.

Here's that attachment for your reading pleasure...

God Exists - Best explanation ever!

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering
that I have seen:

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 outin 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."