We picture ourselves as aspirants for heaven, straining to achieve the prize—our only problem being that we have occasional lapses or that we are too weak and need help to a greater or lesser degree, depending on how conservative or liberal we are. It is all a sham. The one thing we cannot stand about God is that he is God. Luther was quite right: “The natural man cannot will God to be God. Rather he wants himself to be God, and God not to be.”3 Cur deus homo? Why the terror of Golgotha and the empty