text: Why would an all-knowing, all-powerful "Creator" need/want to be like the God that Christians claim him to be? Why would this Being need/demand obedience, praise and assorted grovelling (not to mention sacrifices)? When trying to explain natural disasters like Knysna, or the death of a child, any number of horrific tragedies, or as in the case of this article, the trials of Job, Christians often come up with claims of "God is testing us"... but if God is all-knowing, he already knows what the outcome of the "test" will be?
  
  This article implies that suffering of innocent people is a result of the actions/bad choices of others as they exercise their "free will", and the innocent are just collateral damage in God's little experiment (an experiment, the choices, details, and outcomes of which he already knows). This God is also claimed to be a "Loving God".