Why would an all-knowing god need to test you?

Question

(he already "knows" the result of the test)

What exactly is the point?

Answer 1

Its guides you, sometimes people need a push to follow their true path.

Answer 2

Yes, He does already know the result of the test. His point, I think, is to prove to us that we can do more than we think we can. Sometimes it's when things are hardest for us that we prove our worth. It's when things are hardest that we try our best, ask for help, and turn to God to make up the difference. Many the time I think, "I can't do ______ anymore. I can't. I want to, but I just don't have the strength (stamina) to do it anymore." We're all learning here. We're not perfect. We don't have all the answers. We just try. We strive to live what we know to be true, we struggle, and when we're really working with all cylinders, we pray, and ask for help. It's in acknowledging that we need His help and asking for it (believing that we will receive an answer) that we usually fullfill the purpose of His test.

Answer 3

You may know that a person can be strong, but he still has to become strong. He still needs training and exercising. That is where the testing comes in. God tests us, we become stronger, so he tests us some more so we become stronger still.

Note that test does not mean tempt (response to earlier answer). God give su the capacity to endure whatever situation we find ourselves in, and a way of escape if we don't think we will make it (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Answer 4

I never liked the story of Job. Didn't like the end either when he asks why God had done this and the answer he gets basically says 'Who are you to question me? Look at all the great things I have done!' It seems as if maybe this 'loving' deity isn't always...well, loving.
Oh, yeah. Speaking of...since He's supposed to be omniscient, doesn't that mean He knew very well what Satan was doing? What is the point of his asking what he had done?

Answer 5

Regardless if God knows the outcome of the test you will be a better person through pain and suffering, and hard labor.

Just imagine if everything was easy, and given to you and you NEVER struggled, then life would be a bore, and there would be no challenge.

Tests make you a better person, and helps you move on to the next step whatever it may be.

Answer 6

Good question, but is god’s exercise of foreknowledge necessarily infinite, without limit? Does he foresee and foreknow all future actions of everyone? Or, is God’s exercise of foreknowledge selective and discretionary, so that whatever he chooses to foresee and foreknow, he does, but what he does not choose to foresee or foreknow, he doesn’t? And, instead of preceding their existence, does God’s determination of his creatures’ eternal destiny await his judgment of their course of life and of their proved attitude under test?

What does the bible say?

Well a number of scriptures show that God examined a current and then made a decision based on that examination.

at Genesis 11:5-8 God is described as directing his attention earthward, surveying the situation at Babel, and, at that time, determining the action to be taken to stop what the people were doing there. After things got to a certain state at Sodom and Gomorrah, god advised Abraham of his decision to investigate (by means of his angels) to “see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it.” (Genesis 18:20-22; 19:1) He spoke of ‘becoming acquainted with Abraham,’ and after Abraham went to the point of attempting to sacrifice Isaac, God said, “For now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”—Genesis 18:19; 22:11, 12; compare Nehemiah 9:7, 8 & Galatians 4:9.

Selective foreknowledge means that God could choose not to foreknow indiscriminately all the future acts of his creatures. This would mean that, rather than all history from creation onward being just a rerun of what had already been foreseen and foreordained, God could with all sincerity set before the first human pair the prospect of everlasting life in an earth free from wickedness. His instructions to his first human son and daughter to act as his perfect and sinless agents in filling the earth with their offspring and making it a paradise, as well as exercising control over the animal creation, could thus be expressed as the grant of a truly loving privilege and as his genuine desire toward them—not merely as the giving of a commission that, on their part, was foredoomed to failure. God’s arranging for a test by means of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” and his creation of “the tree of life” in the garden of Eden also would not be meaningless or cynical acts, made so by his foreknowing that the human pair would sin and never be able to eat of “the tree of life.”—Gen 1:28; 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:22-24.

Hope this helps.

Answer 7

this is actually the best question i ever saw on here. it makes you think.

first of all he does not give us too much we can't handle many people tell me. another god doesn't tested the devil does. devil is testing us how we want to be good. god does but in a different and solid signs. like in love and career social and other real ways not like the devils. devils give us freedom of what we can do. like drinking and smoking and sex. that is when our faith needs to hold strong

Answer 8

The point is to strengthen our faith. By putting us through trials, our faith becomes stronger, and we become more confident. Then we're able to do more in Christ and have a greater impact. As ppl we're doubtful of God's abilities, but by testing us, and putting us through hard times, He tries to force us to go to Him and that lets us know we can rely on Him, so that when He wants us to do something, we'll do it without hesitation, or at least less than normal, bc we know from experience that He'll be there

Answer 9

good question. All-knowing must obviously mean knowing "all". So if this god existed, he is supposed to know everything about everything. He would know how much you love him without some test.

THIS GOD IS FICTIONAL, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT TO EXIST.

Answer 10

If you are talking about "life" as a test. Again, there is free will of us creatures. We are not automatons. Love means obedience.
The point is: Live your life for God and not for you selfish little self.

Answer 11

So that he can have an objective basis for judging you (otherwise, you might talk back to God and say that you haven't done anything yet!).

Also, not all "tests" are just to judge you; "tests" are also supposed to teach you about yourself so that you can (hopefully) improve your character.