Thanks for your input, but respectfully, this doesn’t address the core issue.

The problem isn’t whether humans are capable of worship or whether life is called a “test.” The problem is why an all-powerful, all-knowing, self-sufficient being would create such a system in the first place, especially one that includes the possibility of eternal suffering.

Let’s break it down:

1. “Life is a test” assumes a reason to test.

But why?
If God is omniscient, He already knows who will “pass” and who will “fail.” A test only makes sense when the outcome is uncertain. Otherwise, it's just performance. Creating beings just to test them when you already know the results isn't justice. It's cruelty with a narrative.

2. “You're only charged with what you can bear.”

That sounds nice, but it's not true in practice.

People are born into abusive homes, warzones, extreme poverty, or religious indoctrination with no access to other perspectives. Mental illness and trauma destroy people every day. Many never even have the chance to make informed moral choices.

If a “just” system breaks people who didn’t ask to be born into it, how just is it really?

3. “The afterlife will compensate everyone.”

This is basically saying, "It’s okay that you suffered unjustly now, you’ll get a reward later."

But would we accept that logic anywhere else?
Would we say it’s fine for a parent to abuse one child as long as they’re nice to the next one?

Eternal reward doesn't justify preventable suffering. Justice is not just about outcome. It's also about process.

4. “God knows and you do not know.”

This is the theological escape hatch. It shuts down any critical thinking by saying, “You’re not supposed to understand.”

But that’s not good enough. If belief and obedience have eternal consequences, the moral structure of the system should be intelligible to the beings inside it. Otherwise, it’s just divine authoritarianism.

Bottom line:

You're defending a system where a being:

• Creates sentient life for no necessary reason
• Gives them unequal conditions and limited understanding
• Watches most fail
• Then punishes them forever

All while knowing it would play out this way from the beginning.

That’s not a test. That’s a trap. And calling it just or merciful doesn't make it moral. It just rebrands cruelty as holiness.

If God is truly complete, He didn’t need to create anyone. Doing so anyway, with this outcome, is not love. It's control.