Faith

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 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."

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 unkept. 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."

This cartoon appears in the book Computation Engineering: Applied Automata Theory and Logic by Dr. Ganesh Gopalakrishnan.

I drew this comic at the suggestion of my computational theory instructor, who thought that there was potential humor in the conundrum:

Every barber shaves everyone who does not shave himself. No barber shaves someone who shaves himself. Prove that there exists no barber.

The trick is -- if you follow this statement to its conclusion using formal logic, then you really can prove that barbers don't exist. Absurd, you say. The flaw lies not with our powers of deduction, but rather with the premise. This is a trivial example, pertinent only in the minds of theoreticians. But there is a lesson to be learned here... no matter how carefully we may analyze something, we can still go astray if our initial assumptions are not correct.

BE BLESSED & BE

A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!!

In Love & JOY

as ONE

Yvonne