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This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and
> > > suffering that I have seen. It's an explanation other people
>will
> > > understand:
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> > > A lady went to a beauty shop to have her hair cut and
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> > > her nails painted and trimmed. As the lady began to work, they
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> > > began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many
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> > > things and various subjects.
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> > > When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the
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> > > beautician said : "I don't believe that God exists."
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> > > "Why do you say that?" asked Sheryl who has MS.
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> > > "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that
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> > > God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so
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> > > many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God
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> > > existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't
> > > imagine a
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> > > loving God who would allow all of these things."
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> > > Then Sheryl thought for a moment, but didn't respond because
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> > > she didn't want to start an argument. The beautician
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> > > finished her job and the customer left the shop. Just after
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> > > she left the beauty shop, she saw a woman in the street with
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> > > long, stringy, dirty hair and not groomed at all. She looked
> > > dirty and
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> > > unkempt.
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> > > Then Sheryl turned back and entered the beauty shop again and
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> > > she said to the beautician: "You know what? Beauticians do not
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> > > exist."
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> > > "How can you say that?" asked the surprised beautician. "I am
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> > > here, and I am a beautician. And I just worked on you!"
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> > > "No!" Sheryl exclaimed. "Beauticians don't exist because if
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> > > they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and
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> > > be very unkempt, like that woman outside."
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> > > "Ah, but beauticians DO exist! What happens is, people do not
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> > > come to me."
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> > > "Exactly!"- affirmed Sheryl. "That 's the point! God, too,
> > > DOES exist!
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> > > What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for
> > > Him.
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> > > That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."