Yahweh, the Devil, and Job

[John V]

I'm judging how a deity would behave based upon the abilities attributed to it. I find it hard to swallow that an omnipotent, omniscient deity would be concerned with such petty things as praise, which come about from the finite capacity for knowledge and emotional shortcomings.

That you find something hard to swallow is merely an argument from personal incredulity.

You said that god is pleased with obedience, and that obedience through suffering is greater than obedience with reward. Thus god derives pleasure from our suffering.

No, God derives pleasure from obedience.

That is true to an extent, but if we were omnipotent, as god is, our need to spend our resources on ourselves because we care too much about our own well-being wouldn't be a factor.

Irrelevant, as I'm only talking about luxuries.

No one's talking about receiving freely given praise.

Yes, that's exactly what God and Satan are talking about in Job.

We're talking about basic rights and necessities given for a maintainable existence,

Again, no, we're talking about luxuries. Rather than admit your hypocrisy, you try to build a straw man.

something which wouldn't be a burden or inconvenience to your god, yet you attempt to justify such inaction through reasons that would be of no concern to an omnipotent deity.

And we circle back to your argument from personal incredulity for good measure.