... and God's point was ...??
"Job loves me even after I let you kick him around ( hope he dosen't find out I set him up ! ) "
"I can too create people that you can't seduce...so there ! "( my reject rate is pretty dismal with all the non-christians, but I'm working on it )
"See, I could have made you just like this... I want you just the way you are and don't forget it !"
Why don't you ask Him? (I am not being facetious).
... and God's point was ...??
Well, that could have been taken for an honest question, but you wouldn't want anyone to mistake your intent, right? So you continued with some choice sarcasm. Fine. Now everyone knows that you have already decided that your question has no answer that you will deign to accept.
If you ever happen to suffer a flash of openmindedness, you would do well to remember that the attitude you have exhibited here nearly guarantees your inability to recognize a good answer. Moreover, in order for you to apprehend the right answer, you must begin with at least a small amount of faith. In case you ever find yourself in that situation, read the first two chapters again. Look first at the point that Satan is trying to make. In my previous post I wrote that "God apparently intends to prove Satan wrong." More accurately, God intends to allow Satan to prove himself wrong. But it doesn't stop there.
You might be further enlightened by reading parts of the Bible that speak of other reasons that God allows His people to suffer, such as Romans 5:3, II Corinthians 12:9, Phillipians 1:27-30, the first chapter of James, I Peter 4:12, Malachi 3:2-3, the end of Hebrews 11 and the beginning of Hebrews 12. There are more, but none of them will profit anything unless they are mixed with faith.
The Zeitgeist of pop psychology and political correctness tells us that suffering is the very definition of evil. When someone suffers, it says, that is evil. If someone else deliberately caused suffering, it says, they are evil. If someone in authority allowed that, it says, they are evil. Perhaps this is how you judge God.
But my God can bring forth good from anything, even—and especially—suffering.