WHY does God allow us to go through pain??

You may have heard this before and then again, maybe you haven't.
I for one believe this is one of the BEST explanations/ answers to the question....








WHY does God allow us to go through pain?





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."

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS !!!!!!! Let them know there IS a true and living God!

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Comment by Eric Hancock on June 22, 2009 at 6:56pm
Our brother has a horrible need to BE RIGHT! HE ALSO NEEDS DELIVERANCE! Trying to minister to him is virtually worthless at this point. He needs intercessory prayer now. His words have become blasphemous:

Isaiah 47:10 For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me.. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.


Isa 47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, [which] thou shalt not know.
Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on June 22, 2009 at 6:56pm
AND YOU ARE NOT HIS MESSENGER YOU LIFE DOESNT SHOW IT. THE LAKE OF FIRE IS WATING FOR YOU IF YOU DONT REPENT WITH YOU FATHER THE SATAN
Comment by Eric Hancock on June 22, 2009 at 6:55pm
you are really in ozone and a very unhappy camper filled with hate ,envy and strife everyone saw your own words for there self,,but you still dealing with ego and as you posted we see you have negative feelings for Christians..if your happy hear you are free to LEAVE

Luke 8:17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither [any thing] hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.




Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.


Matthew 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart


I have found that people (in particularly ministers) do and do not do certain things because they have strong holds in their lives.

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Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on June 22, 2009 at 6:52pm
MORAH' MYBE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THIS, YOU ACT OUT OF THE DEVIL SPIRT AND HE ISONLY A LIER, CHEATER OR DECIEVER. AND WOULD NOT CALL ON THE NAME OF JESUS MYBE IF YOU ACCEPT JESUS CHIRST AS YOU SAVIOR THEN YOU CAN MOVE FORM BEING A HIGH MINDED FOOL . LET ME BREAK IT DOWN TO YOUR SIZE YOU NEED TO SAY I AM SORRY FOR YOUR ACTION. YOU NEED TO BE GODLY SORRY. REPENT FOR YOUR SIN . YOU ALWAYS ATTACKING CHIRSTIAN , NOT KNOWING YOU ATTACK CHIRST AND HIS CHILDERN. ALL THE WORDS YOU USE IS VAIN THEY HAVE NO POWER,NOR YOU. COME OUT FROM UNDER THE LAW YOU ARE NOT IN BONDAGE ANY MORE CHIRST HAVE SET WITH HIS BLOOD YOU FREE LEARN TO FORGIVE AND MOVE ON. SO YOU PROVE .THAT YOU ARE THE MESS STARTER AND NOT ERIC. STOP USE GOD WORD TO COVER UP YOUR MESS CAUSE IT HAVE BEEN UNCOVER. THE SHOW YOU HAVE IS NOT WORTH TO BEGINN KEEP IT TO YOUR SELF.YOUR WORD AND YOU ACTION IS NOT OF JESUS.HOW ARE YOU ON THE SIDE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WHEN EVERY THING IS YOU WAY ARE NO WAY AT ALL . IF CALL GOD YOU NAME MEANS GETTING IN A PLANE AND RUNNING INTO THE WORLD TRADE BUILDING NO THANK I RATHER HAVE JESUS WHO IS A GOD OF PEACE.TO ALL MY BRO AND SISTERS IN CHIRST YOU DONT HAVE TO SELLOUT TO BE SAVE . THERE IS POWER IN THE OF JESUS AND IT NOT BECAUSE OF THE CHURCH OF ROME BUT BECAUSE OF GOD WHO SENT HIM .JESUS DIED AND ROSE WITH ALL POWER IN HIS HAND.ONLY AT THE NAME OF JESUS CAN MAN BE SAVE.BY NO OTHER MAN . HE CAME TO HIS OWN AND HIS OWN RECIVE HIM NOT. IF YOU HAVE JESUS YOU WOULD NOT TALK AS MORHAN TALK.AND I'AM SURE THAT NOT THE NAME YOU PARENT GAVE YOU HOPE NOT. I HOPE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THIS TYPING IF NOT I"LL CALL YOU AND PRAY WITH YOU, AND OFFER YOU THE SINNER PRAYER. "SO LET THIS SHOW BEGIN" UNDERSTAND AND THIS IS NO THREAT. I REBUKE YOU AND YOUR SPIRT IN THE NAME OF JESUS YOU NEED TO TAKE SOME LESSON FROM THE MISS(YOUR WIFE) ON BEING HUMBLE AND NOT A FOOL.HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS FROM THIS CHIRST-IAN
Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on June 22, 2009 at 3:24pm
amen bro Eric you have done you part and we know tht you are not to blame you have our prayes on your side only a fool dont chang from his wicked way, a fool aways think he is right now it time for morah to stop living a lieing and do his part by apologizey. cant hide God see you , bro eric be incourage Im in pray with you in Jesus name.
Comment by Eric Hancock on June 22, 2009 at 1:59pm
I was finished with this,,BUT I SEE THAT ENQUIRING MINDS WONT LET IT GO..
was I wrong ?? to onle read that I mentally abused ones family YES,,I am GUILTY as charged...DID I start it NO I did not..I ask 10,000 viewers to go to blog 7-8 and see who drop the Mental Nuclea BOMB first,,,He just did not Know like Ben Ladden I caught him relaxed..I said that I was sorry too many times for the innocent ,,not him he is not innocent and some of you know this..I never assumed anything ,,,why is Psalms 51 where David had many Psalms,,why not where David was first called when the Bible said that man looketh the outer apperance but God looketh in the Heart...I want to note to my family on BPN,,i did not start this y'all Know me ,,,but i will finish it...I apologize too many times but will he NO because in his mind he done nothing and you can see where he did....we're Christians he feels that he owe us nothing...Pastor Bel again you done nothing wrong..I am finished please no more e-mails ....on what ,why,when,where I am not going to expose anymore,,enough people has been hurt

Comment by Eric Hancock 1 day ago Delete Comment I truly thank you all,,But let the Heavens rejoice First,,,I like all of your response,,you all made valudated points..Minister Jackson I enjoy your ministry because you heard from Heaven on high and started Praying,,and thats my point I too endure suffering and therefore I know what I am talking about,,FIRST HAND EXPERTISE,,I know when you have everything your that MAN but when trails come and you lose it all so does the people,,BUT GOD,,,I have more than I lost and my latter is greater than my former..many people would have lost there minds if they been through a fraction of what some on this web page been through,,BUT GOD Grace and Mercy over powered what the enemy or what we put ourself in... Minister Jackson you have the ELIHU spirit who was the youngest of Job friends and started to encourage and PRAY for JOB while the others gave there Opinion on why Job was suffering,,,God's Reasons OVERPOWER man's opinion.and that was my point I kept trying to make ,,ONLY GOD knows why he allow things to happen,,I leave you with this what dont kill you will make you stronger,the oil wont leave the olive til the olive has been CRUSHED,,and before we too go to the next level BROKENESS has been Ordained in our journey..Be blessed Comment by Moreh Yahoshua ben Yah PSALMS 51 1 day ago Brother, why would you take credit for something YOU DID NOT WRITE? "took the time to express yourself" by doing what COPY AND PASTE???

This is plagiarism at it's highest point...This brother did not express this thought... J. Hampton Keathley III did...It pains me that you would stoop so low as to not only post someone Else's work but also take credit for it...Yes I see where you stated something "this trak", but i see you are getting credit as the author, why did you not put the persons name that actually wrote it? Let the people give the honor to the person where it is due...not you!

This information that you painstakingly copied can also be found in various places..

http://www.suffering.net/websuf~1.htm
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=775
http://www.sweety.com/suffer.htm
http://timshen.faithweb.com/1pet/topic75.htm

So all they had to do was google the topic and they would have found the Actual author who the Most High gave the inspiration to...

NOW...You misinterpret my words...I never in a million years stated that we would not suffer...I never stated that suffering cannot be a part of life...HOWEVER, the question is what is suffering for the cause of Yahshua the good news? As you plainly copied, scripture speaks about suffering but it is not "personal" suffering in that "my bills not paid" so I'm suffering for messiah, I got into an argument with someone OR my kids are acting a fool...so that's suffering for "Christ"....

IF you want to use the Apostles as an example then you need to ask yourself, am i going through what they OPENLY went through....

How many times have I been in jail because i've preached the Good News?
How many times have i lost a job, or been physically attacked because I proclaim the kingdom of Yah?
When was i last slapped in the face, or persecuted for the cause of being obedient to His Torah?
How many times have you been ridiculed in front of people because of Yahshua?

Not because you gossip, not because you have a nasty attitude, but because you are teaching the Word of the Most High?

I have experienced most of these things and it is not a hop skip and a jump in happyville and I praise the Most High Yahweh that i'm still here to live and teach the good news of Ha moshiac and the restoration of the two Houses of Israel..HalleluYahweh!!!!!...Most of you do not know what suffering for the cause of Yah really is...Not in the least..

The writer of the information said something that goes to what i originally said which was, we suffer because of disobedience, the writer said suffering brings us to obedience ....Yahweh does not just bring (allow) suffering on you unless you are in disobedience in fact it is not automatic..He will not bring suffering just because...

Everyone wants to use Job but yet none of you were like job...Many of you are crying about bills and you want to use job who was upright before the Most High....NOTICE THE KIND OF LIFE YOU HAVE TO LIVE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO ENDURE ANY KIND OF SUFFERING...Most of you would not be able to deal with a 1/4 of what Job had to deal with.....

You can suffer because of disobedience or you can suffer because of the Good news...anything else are choices WE have made for the good OR for the bad...

As a matter of fact, Most of what he (the actual writer) stated goes to exactly what my point was...so for those who feel "he showed him" you are totally wrong...I have no respect (or very little) for someone who would (just for the sake of looking sound) post all the scripture you did (many out of context) without going through what the writer stated...I know some of you are going to go in defence mode because Christians will stand up for each other lie, deception or plagiarism..if does not matter....scripture is Very clear on suffering...but the Christian world has NO IDEA about real suffering...

Messiah went through ONE DAY of hell and He was without sin...You all who (some of you) condone the Torah being abolished, some of you who just sin and defend those in it and say "we can't be perfect" would not survive 1 hour of the suffering the messiah or Apostles went through...whenhe said that I cant wait to start this show he was not talking about NO Talk show because it was not stipulated,,the only show that he wanted to start was the attack the Christains show wich he is known for doing,,we were have a great fellowship in regards i have various web pages I consult with along with my own studies,,One person said great ,,and the enemy snuck in and used BOTh of us,,,I dont allow people to challenge me and walk away ,,I fight back unfortunatley
now I can say to all BPN I was wrong but I feel that I done it enough ,,he cant say he was wrong because this site is Christian based and ego accommadtions



Eric nice copy but the brother also had some things wrong and scriptural off base...but much of it just confirmed what I was attempting to say...You should apologize to these people for not making it CLEAR as to where you got the information...I'm sure you meant good...

Man i can't wait to start this show.....

Shalom Comment by Tara Robinson 1 day ago Eric it sounds as though someone is jealous. He wants to say we don't know what true suffering is according to the bible because we have not suffered the way Jesus and the Apostles did . In saying all that I have yet to see him mention he has suffered like The Apostles all I see is someone trying to prove everyone wrong in what we said about suffering also I read what you posted again and I see no where you taking credit for anyone else writings but what I do see is you giving glory to God and only those who have the spirit of God would know this.
Comment by Tara Robinson on June 22, 2009 at 1:23pm
Brother Eric did apologize sister AliYah and you should leave it at that and let God handle it. Just a thought though How did he get this information about your marriage anyway someone had to tell him so maybe you should check into and settle it from there and let God just fight the battle. If this person told him who else did they tell. Thought you might wanna consider this in resolving the whole manner.
Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on June 22, 2009 at 12:42pm
AMEN TARA
Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on June 22, 2009 at 12:41pm
ALIYHAN REREAD THIS WAS NOT SAYING (YOU ) but every one is different so let reason togather i have no beef with you , you seem to be a good person doing some good work .but you or morhar should not attack no one I didnt attempt to offen you but pray that the attack on bro eric stop this is child like not Messiah o chirst like behavior God knows BRO ERIC HEART WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE .SO NOT YOU BUT MORHE NEED TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS BUT YOU SITE IS VERY INFORMATIVE AND WE NEED ALL OF THIS TO HELP TO BE MORE LIKE THE MESSIAH JESUS CHIRST SO DONT ADD MORE WOOD TO THE FIRE BUT HELP PUT IT OUT.IN YAH NAME .NO I DONT KNOW AND NOT TRYING TO BUT I WAS REFERNING TO MORAH TEACHING. I CANT BE CHANGE I AM ROOTED IN JESUS BUT I DONT HAT YOUR HUSBAND FOR TRYING NOW THATS THE SHOW.BUT DONT HAT YOU FOR LOVING YOUR HUSBAND AND HIM LOVING YOU BACK. BUT REMBER IT NOT WHAT YOU SAY BUT HOW YOU SAY IT LOOK AT THE WAY YAH OR JESUS HANDLE DIFF EVENTS IN THE BIBLE IT NOT JUST TOSTUDY BUT TO APPLY TO OUR OWN LIFE. THE BIBLE IS A S A XRAY WHAT DO YOU SEE. THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON YOU OR YOUR HUSBAND BUT LOVE. HOPE YOU SEE IT EVERY ONE IS NOT WRONG
Comment by Phyllis D. Cameron on June 22, 2009 at 11:55am
That just WOWed me

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