Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “Does God want to test us? Why?“, Leave a Reply below!
There’s no God, so nobody want to test us
This is an unanswerable question, it should ask “Iff God exists might he/she test us for some reason?” To such a question I would say, he can do whatever he/she wants.
.I don’t believe in a ‘God’ or entity that watches over us or test us.
.I believe that we test ourselves to live our best life; striving to allow ourselves to be whole, balanced, living in the current moment.. By doing this, we are walking happiness to share with others. By embracing our problems, which are a natural part of life, as opportunities to love more deeply, to live fully, to fully see who we are in our esssence and see this in everyone, we are whole and balanced!
I do not generally reply to blogposts but I’ sure will in this case. Wow a big thumbs up for this one!
I suppose the testing would be along the lines of Santa’s naughty & nice list. And of course, the reason for it all? To get toys.
If I would build a robot, I would test it of course, to keep record how it performed. But after that, depending on the result, I would go back to the drawing board or open a champaigne bottle to celebrate, but my robot would go through only one treatement–improvement.
We can’t spank our kids or confined them inside the closets when they don’t listen to us. But we do take them to Macdonalds regardless they behave or not.
In organized religion, God always ‘test’ us when bad things happen to us. The good things always comes as a ‘reward’ of passing the test successfully (that is, not whinning or not blaming the authority but ‘fate’ and not as a ‘test’ itself!) Why don’t God frequently tests me by granting me lotto jackpots to see whether I donate some to the church or make a charity to gay organizations?
God can see the future, then why does he waste time in testing?
This idea kind of puts God on par with the college board, or a lab technician. Or maybe Consumer Reports.
I don’t accept the opening premise, so I cannot provide a meaningful reply from a personal perspective.
However, I can go ahead and wonder: why would any god (with all the usual requisite omnipotence) bother with “testing” anyone? Can it be that omnipotence and self-doubt can coexist in the same deity?
This question presupposes a particular god not only exists, but concerns itself with the thoughts and deeds of mere mortals.
I can’t imagine that a god who would allow things to continue on as they have over the centuries is in any sense of the word good.
The riddle of Epicurus remains unanswered:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
We are just like a game toy, and that is what i can’t accept.