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On the absence of God as the ultimate test...

Do you know why God seems so absent sometimes? There are several reasons, including (among others) the fact that perhaps your God wasn't really THE God, but just one of the many gods -- a mask created by imagination and worn by beings with more will to power than you. However, when all the gods are shown to be idols, and all the masks stripped away, there really IS an empty place. THE TRUE GOD is completed uncreated, unapproachable, incomprehensible. He is not "A GOD." He is the Unknown God. But the fool sees this and says in his heart, "There is no God." So why does He choose to act like this, even to the point where His own beloved Son cries out, in His moment of deepest need, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Here's why, I think. He made us truly free agents. Morality really is a social construct. When you get right down to it, Nietzsche was largely correct, and willpower wins the day. Note that most of us are not p