[Silent A]

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Seriously man, you should really drop the "tested" stuff pronto. It makes your already mostly ridiculous position totally absurd and untenable. Using your approach, how do we know God isn't a flamboyant gay and he put the homoslaying in the OT as a big test for all of us?

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Because it's not meant to be a serious philosophical argument but a post hoc rationalization of why the world as it exists doesn't fit with their ideas about the fundamentally benevolent nature of their god.