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No, brother, this is not correct. God does not hate you. He loves all people. Your father had his own issues, and taking it out on you was wrong. He had a choice, but he chose to beat you, probably because he was probably treated the same way while growing up or he was trying to keep you in line to save face as a minister of God.

None of those reasons are right. I have a close family member who went through the same thing, hell, but he chose not to follow his father's footsteps and beat his children as your father had.

Then why didn't he stop the abuse. Don't tell me the Free Wll theory. Jonah didn't have free will and neither did job. God stepped in to help the isrealites but not me . I guess he only helps those that are really important

Hello,

You are trying to "figure out" the wrong assumption (ie. that "God has hated me my whole life ...", &c.)

You assume incorrectly simply based upon your life experience, and attribute the result to the incorrect source. Evil (even by your own statements) has occured to / upon you, and yet you blame God for those things. Are you unaware of the nature of God, that God is love (1 Jhn. 4:8,16), and that there is an enemy, satan?

You cannot be ignorant (without knowledge) of the latter, since you clearly attribute suffering of Job to "Satan", and why then misdirect the blame to God, when it was very clearly the devil who is at fault for such things, and not God?

Your very response demonstrates "free will" (within God's providences, or set choices given; in other words, as God sets "A" and "B" before a person, they cannot choose outside of that set of choices, but are free to choose from those choices; there is no "C" option to choose in the scenario ...

There is always a resultant effect that follows such choices, for good or evil, depending on the choice made.

Paul's free will led him to Rome and to beheading. It was a resultant effect of his choosing to continue to share the good news. He knew that going to Jerusalem he would be arrested. He chose to go any way in spite of knowing the resultant effect of his choice.

You have already 'fallen' for the subject in your response, though you claim otherwise. The response is a self-contradiction in itself. This is not to be harsh, but simply a logical analysis of it. You have chosen to blame God instead of the devil ("Satan").

In Job, Satan had made a claim against God, about the world. Satan essentially claimed all the world as his own, and that none followed God. God then raised an objection, pointing to Job (at bare minimum, and God already knowing what was about to happen and its results) as not a follower of the devil, but of God, and that the world did not, in fact, belong to Satan.

God did not command Satan to torture, or be cruel to Job. That was all Satan. God had actually given opportunity to Satan to bless Job better than God had already done. If Satan really owned all, then surely doing so would turn Job to the better "God". Satan squandered the opportunity, and instead of blessing, murdered, stole, injured nearly to death, Job. Why would God allow this?

Because God already knew Job's heart in the matter, and that even if such had come from God (it didn't, it came from Satan), that he would trust God anyway, knowing the character of God was perfect in love, and that such things were for Job's own good in the resultant end; ... and demonstrating Satan's character before all, in contrast to God's.

... like as a parent who allows their child to go through pain, that they might be healed from something, such as going through a spinal tap, which finally results in a diagnosis for a cure, or a blood draw by painful needle, which results in a healthier person at the ending.

Job's ending was not in misery, but in double blessing. Why only focus on the misery (brought by satan), rather than on the real issues at hand, and the greater outcome of joy?

Do you realize that it is entirely possible that your personal suffering (at the hands of satan and his disciples), can result in a greater good, not only for you personally (I did not say to minimize your suffering, pain, misery, trials), but also for others? That there is a greater picture to consider, other than just 'you'?