[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...

[RS]

"This was all to test Job's dedication to God. "
"He did that to Job for our benefit, and for the benefit of Job's friends. "
I'm glad you seem to have realized that Job's trials were not a test of him but simply some sort of demonstration for the rest of us.

But what has it really demonstrated ?
That the trials in our lives might be God running an experiment? Hardly, since He knows the outcome.
That God is the boss and can take the leash off his nastier creations whenever he chooses ? Nope, If you believe in God you already know it, if you don't you won't connect it.

Hopefully he had some rational reason for it, but the explainations so far are simply not very God-like, more like some petty dictator trying to prove how strong he is, and therby asserting his weekness.