Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: bnr-fos!bmers58!davem@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dave Mielke) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Testing God Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 89 04:47:04 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article palosaari@oxy.edu (Jedidiah Jon Palosaari) writes: >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. There is a marked difference with respect to our actions, i.e. how we are testing God. This passage is inviting us to test God, i.e. verify that He will honour His promises, by living in a way that brings glory to Him. The other passages command us not to test Him by deliberately doing something that we feel would obligate Him to do something according to our own wills. Dave Mielke, 613-726-0014 856 Grenon Avenue Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2B 6G3