DOES GOD EXIST?

DOES GOD EXIST?         
   


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 unkempt. The customer 
turned back and entered the barbershop 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.