The climactic end of Lewis' work "Till We Have Faces" is set when Oural dreams of her encounter with the Gods. This meeting of the Holy and the distraught creation is really fascinating, and the curious reader must ask, "what would the Gods say?" While this answer is almost completely up to the individuals perception of the divine, it offers a unique opportunity for an imaginative exercise.
This idea of the Gods conversing with a doubting or question subject is not unique to this myth created by Lewis. Perhaps the best example exists within the final chapters of the Book of Job. In these last few chapters, after Job and all his friends had questioned why God would do what He did and questioned what makes God just in doing so, God, Himself, responds. His overwhelming response can be summed up in the question, "What gives you the right to question Me?" "Where were you when the foundations of the earth were laid?" God asked a shocked Job. God is indignant that His creation would presume to know what is good and right more than Him, or that His creation has a right to know Gods purpose and role. This is more or less the reaction I would expect the Gods in "Till We Have Faces" to have. If they are the omnipotent and omniscient creators, what gives any limited being the right to question their motives and purposes?
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