He never was supposed to be a "Good God" who loves you and cuddles with you and only wishes good upon you. He's mother -blam!-ing God! He can do WHATEVER THE -blam!- HE WANTS! When you were a kid and you had that little ant farm toy, you know, the one you PUT ANTS IN?! lol. You could take care of them...or burn those sons of bitches with a magnifying glass! You can kill the strong and leave them weak, you can smash the queen under your boot! You are the God of the ants in this situation. All the people who thing God was benevolent HAVE NEVER READ THE STORY OF JOB! And if you never read this story, I'll give you a brief summary: [spoiler]>Be Job >Be uber blessed by God >have shit load of farm animals, nice family, epic farm >pray to God to thank him everyday >God is talking to his bros up in Heaven (including Satan), wondering why Job is soo perfect? >Then God asks Satan "have you found any sinners today?" >Satan says "nope, but Job seems awfully suspicious! I bet if you took away your blessings, he'd curse your name and become a SINNER!" >God takes Satan up for his bet, wrecks Job's house, family, farm, EVERYTHING >Job = pwned >Job is still praying to God and being a nice guy >God realized he had made a mistake (in the Torah it says he made a wrong decision) >Job's friends believe he is secretly a sinner and should repent >Job says "no, I've never done anything wrong! Now I want GOD TO ANSWER FOR HIS INJUSTICE!" >Job "presses charges" unto God, gives notice to Satan (who is the prosecuter) >Satan tells God >God shows up as a TORNADO and says: "WHAT YOU WANT JOB?!" >Job says: "You destroyed everything I owned, my family, my livelihood. But I've done nothing wrong! Why aren't YOU punished for your injustice?!" >God says: "Nothing on Earth is my equal, a creature without fear" >then Job says: "I know that you can do all things; and the reason is unquestioned" >God gives back all that he took away >Job lives a long prosperous life >fin[/spoiler] Now if you read the above summary of Job, you'll know at the end that God's motives behind his actions ARE UNQUESTIONABLE! Because he's God. He can do whatever he wants, because He's God. And we just have to deal with it. What people like to focus on in Job's Trial is that "you should be patient and pious and God will be kind to you, he will reward you. And if you lose something God will replace it with something twice as good." They tend to not focus on the fact that God isn't a good guy OR a bad guy, he can just do whatever he wants. People pray to him so that we don't get pwned by God, Christians pray to him for BLESSINGS, Muslims and Jews pray to him for MERCY! In the Torah and Qur'an it never says God is a "benevolent being" like the Bible does. Okay well you might say, the Muslims also call God "An-Nafi" which means "The Propitious, The Benefactor, The Source of Good". But we also call Him "Ad-Darr" which means "The Distressor, The Harmer, The Afflictor". God is BOTH the bringer of death and bringer of life, so he also must be the bringer of things that harm us and things that cure us...correct? So yeah, this may cause a lot of hate, but it should open the eyes a little bit to people who thing God is the "good-guy", cause he isn't. God doesn't "work in mysterious ways", he just does WHATEVER THE -blam!- HE WANTS! Just like the ants deal with us, we in turn, must deal with God. tl;dr:[spoiler]there is no tl;dr for you. Read it the above post or GTFO[/spoiler]