Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: palosaari@oxy.edu (Jedidiah Jon Palosaari) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Testing God Message-ID: Date: 24 Nov 89 03:27:13 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In numerous places in the old and new testament it states no to test God. Yet in Malachi 3:10 it states "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty," and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." Here God tells us to test Him. I looked at all the other "testing" passages I could find, and each time it either tells us to not test God, or states that God tests man. And even in Malachai, although it doesn't mention the word test, it says in 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words... in what seems to be a test of God. Does anyone know why it would state in this one passage that it's ok to test God? Is the Hebrew here different perhaps? Eager for *any* answers, Jedidiah Palosaari