OK guys you have gone off the thread.
Testing the spirits is not because God is testing us.
If you want a thread about being tempted, you could have one for that, such as the purpose of being tempted, is to overcome it.. ( not to be overcome of evil, but by good, to overcome evil)..
Romans 12:21 Be not
overcome of
evil, but
overcome evil with good.
James 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
2 Peter 2:20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the
latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
But testing the spirits is because the spirits are trying to overcome faith. ( little children have overcome them, because GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD/MANY ANTICHRISTS SENT INTO THE WORLD.)
WHOSOVER US BORN OF GOD OVECOMES THE WORLD, and this is the VICTORY THAT OVERCOMES THE WORLD, even OUR FAITH...
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have
overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?