The Testing of God's Sons (Biblia.com)

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There exists a general lack of biblical understanding for the idea of “testing” that emerges in the Old Testament as a significant theological theme. The faithful from both Old Testament and New Testament times are tested for their faith. This kind of experience often involves enduring hardship and difficult times. While often confused with the biblical idea of “temptation,” the biblical idea of...

testing shares some common ground with the much broader theme of Christian suffering. Understood biblically, testing addresses some of the “why?” behind Christian suffering. As will be seen, both Moses and Paul addressed audiences who were asking essentially the same question. What was true for the wilderness generation and their experience of hunger, thirst, and hardship was also true for the persecuted church in Paul’s day. In a fallen world hardship, exile, and suffering all work to produce the

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