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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 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! 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.
God does love us and care about us, but He gave us freedom from the
beginning, and in that freedom we chose to disobey. This disobedience has
caused the deterioration of God's originally perfect creation. But He had
a plan from the start of how to fix it all and restore it back to its original
state and even better. That's why He came down as a God-man, and was born
in a manger. To save His people from their sin.
Choose your response:
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