I always hear this from Christians who are going through hard times. "God is testing me!" they say. And they aren't shy about telling other people that he's testing them, either.
But here's something I don't get:
God is supposed to be omniscient, right? He knows everything, past, present, in future, so I'm told. Presumably, that includes how you will respond to his testing.
So what's the point?
Some people claim he does it to build character. Why? He knows what you'll turn out to be, and hypothetically, he designed you that way, so why would it take you being "tested" in order for you to turn out a certain way?
I call bullshit. It's not testing. And it's not shaping you into something better.
Because some people don't survive the so-called testing God does. There are people right now in Ukraine who are dead because of the shit they had to endure. There are people starving to death in third world countries, because God apparently felt they needed "testing".
You know how I envision a God who tests people like that, who throws starvation, war, and whatever other horrors he can at them?
