re: Help me determine some Objective Truth

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I re-read 1 Kings 18 and can’t find in there where the LORD requests the test.

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You missed “seemingly”

The objective truth, per my previous post, is pursuit of communion with the Lord.

Throughout the Bible, there are hints and expressions that God wants to give us His gifts, but does so in a way that requires humanity to prepare itself, deeply understand the consequences, and use it in a way that glorifies God. In the case your OP mentions, the ancients desire the knowledge, but are unprepared for the consequences of having and living with that gift.

In the Garden of Eden, Adam was instructed to not eat the fruit because “you will surely die.” The serpent told Adam he would be like God. In all the time before this, in perfect communion with God, Adam was being instructed and prepared for the gift of the knowledge- even being allowed to name all living things- but he took the fruit anyway, and then blamed Eve and the serpent. In the end, both God and the serpent were right- he died (literally and figuratively) and he became like God in knowledge