Christian : If life was a TEST from God, what would be the purpose?

Question

I can just think of something only,

To more mature/better person ( Omnipotent God could not create full matured ? )
To test faith ( Omniscience God needs to test ? )

And by the way,
Does God use the test result to give you better position in Heaven ?

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doug0102

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Answer 1

not everything is for testing. yes we will have test if you would like to call it that. he doesn't do it for himself. satan goes around accusing ppl that they will turn their backs to God if he quits blessing us or if we have such a hard time. so to prove to satan that we wont, he goes ahead and allows satan to do certain things. now there is also discipline. God disciplines those he loves and considers his child. what dad dont discipline his child? but the bottom line is this, we all must go through trials and tribulations to enter his kingdom. those that run the race and strive will make it, the ones that coward out or whatever wont.

Answer 2

God isn't testing us. We chose to be separate from God at some point because we saw so much beauty around us, and we wanted a physical experience. Because of free will we are here. We have become so caught up in the physical, we have forgotten the life we led as a spirit. In spirit we learned that we learn the lessons needed are more quickly learned here than in the spiritual world. The only thing is, we only bring what we must have from the spiritual world, and we then forget it. That's why se don't remember other lives, and sometimes deny truth. We just don't remember.

Blessed Be

Answer 3

God didn't create us and this world for some huge test. He just wanted to create us. Like an artist that just wants to paint a picture. He wants to commune with us and the only way we can do that if we're in right standing with Him. He only wanted people who wants Him. If He made us all mature and perfect and without free will it kind of makes us a slave, right?
So it makes sense that He gave us a free will.

To test one's faith isn't so much for God as it is for us. We don't know the limit we can go and the true attitude of our hearts until we are tested on it.

We don't get any position in Heaven and we don't become angels, it isnt Biblical.

If you have any more questions don't hesitate to email me. Hope that helps!

Answer 4

Have you ever heard of free will? God put us all here, and allowed us all to have free will to make choices. He doesn't force anyone to believe in Him or love Him. Therefore, the purpose of "God's test" is to see whether his creation of man will choose Him or will Satan corrupt the world so much that many will become atheists and believe in nothing larger than the sky they can visibly see. Just know that there is air in the sky that we can't see, just as there is a God in my life that I can feel without seeing with human eyes. God is LOVE in every form. I see God when I look at my daughters or when I see a sunrise, or eat a good meal, or do anything I enjoy doing. What about waking up every day? That's pretty good too. So if like is a test, are you passing?

Answer 5

Friend: The tests in life are not for God's benefit. Remember he is perfect, He knows all there is to know about us. The tests we face are for our benefit. The test is to let us see in a concrete way the depth of our faith. The tests of life also remind us of what others are facing each day.
Rev. Terry

Answer 6

Life is a test. The test is to see who will be faithful to him. Who will persevere to the end and run the good race. Who will obey his commandments and spread the good word. The only way to pass the test is to give up your life and give it to God. Just do the right thing here on earth and you will be rewarded in heaven. But don't be jocking for first place in heaven. God loves a humble servant.

Answer 7

Given that he has allowed us free will, to show satan and even all his faithful angels in heaven that regardless of our imperfection, there will still be people on the earth who love God and will obey him, no matter what it costs.
And the reward will be'
(Psalm 37:11) But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

Jesus was a sacrifice that also had a reward.
(John 17:5) So now you, Father, glorify me alongside yourself with the glory that I had alongside you before the world was.

Did Jesus have glory before he was sent to earth?
Yes.
(Proverbs 8:22-31) “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.

Answer 8

Life is an opportunity for us to choose. To put it quite simply, God gives us what we choose. Those who choose God and desire his presence will have that for all eternity. Those who do not choose God and do not desire his presence will spend eternity absent from him and his presence.

People talk about hell and fire and burning, but the worst thing about not choosing God will not be those things; it will be having the complete 100% absence of God. We see how evil this world can be when God just allows the devil to influence it without God being completely absent. Imagine the complete absence of the loving/living God.

Answer 9

Life is not a test. it is a learning experience.we always have had and always will have free choice.the real battle in life is the war between spirit and flesh. which do we give in to. do we pander to the temporary imaginary pleasures of mortal man or do we dwell in the real pleasures of spiritual man.

Answer 10

"The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none." A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)