...and that includes the metaphysical and epistemological claims of Stoicism, as much as we may appreciate the ethical standards that it promotes. It has no ultimate answer for 'why?'

Stoicism is a dead, dry, branch that can't get off the ground, Deism makes a weak white-man's jump at the heavens but falls immediately back to ground.

Christian theism, on the other hand, that _sui generis_ worldview, is a living branch from the living root and water of life: the immaterial yet eminently personal, that 'concrete uninersal', that trascendant **and** immanent, the infinite, eternal, and unchangable (i.e., impassible) Creator of all. And that, especially, in the Word incarnate, the man Jesus Christ.