[RS]

"Read the story, or continue to be ignorant, "

You know nothing of my knowledge of the Bible or God, and your ignorance has led you to make statements with no supporting information. A childish mistake, but one that I can forgive.

Unless you assume God has no knowledge of the consequences of His actions, He specifically created the fallen angel Satan, one of whose pre-ordained tasks was to torture poor Job. Conversely, God knew that Job would prevail in the trials, yet He still put poor Job through them. Even today's scientists would not put a lab rat through such an experiment , knowing with 100% certainty what the outcome would be.

Or perhaps you don't believe in an all-powerfull, all-knowing God.

[Come get it]

You are right that I made assumptions regarding your knowledge, and for that I apologize. Yes, God created Satan, and yes, God knew what the outcome would be, but He still did it because other people need to see the power of God displayed through the lives of everyday people. He did that to Job for our benefit, and for the benefit of Job's friends. There are many sides to any one action of God's. He can accomplish more things with one action than we can imagine. You seem to be trying to put God in a box, so to speak. He is not that simple.

So to answer your question, yes, I do believe that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. He knew what the result of Job's testing would be, but He did it anyway because we need to see and hear Job's testimony.

But we digress...

[Come get it]

One other minor point, but it is an important one. You state that "He still put poor Job through them", yet God did not do those things, He allowed Satan to do them.

I know you will come back saying that God created Satan, so God did it indirectly. If you want to believe that, fine, but the point is that Satan did it, not God.