I like this one. Arm chair theologians. Seeing the world without the
ambition to reach past their own protective comfort zone, and to cocoon
themselves from truth and reality, they make no God rather than having to
own up to why things occur and that they, themselves, might be the cause,
victim, or abuser in any given situation. It is easier to omit an absolute
truth and holy deity than be accountable to it.

Brad



Phil Scovell wrote:
>      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 as he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street
>with long, stringy, filthy 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," answered the barber.  "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 or Him.  That's why there's so much pain and suffering in
>the world."
>
>Author Unknown.
>
>
>
>I Flew Kites With Jesus
>www.SafePlaceFellowship.com

Brad

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