So the omnipotent father rescues his child, or the gives to the beggar, only after a test is passed?
Are you really honestly asking this or are you just asking to be argumentative?
I'm not just being argumentative. Do you not see the problem with the claims being made in the story? Do you not see that the idea of "testing" someone in need before helping him contradicts other teachings?
God is not going to force anyone to be around Him for eternity if they spend their entire life on this earth deliberately rejecting Him.
Now that would be torture to these people, to be stuck around the people that love God and want to be around Him and enjoy being with Him, when that’s never been what these people wanted in the first place.
I meant “the test is over” not in the sense that it saves them, it is merely a recognition of the life they lived that showed they loved God, knew they needed Him and His gift of salvation, and that they trusted God and knew that He was working things for their good, whether personally their situation was good or bad at the moment.
If you’re just here playing devils advocate, I have no desire to debate this with you. If you’ve already made up your mind that God isn’t for you, you’re not interested in hearing anything but are just picking apart people’s answers to you. Either way I’m done with you. Take care.