I think at some point we need to address the basic logical flaw in monotheism; Ideals are not absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every society are ideals.

The universal on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which we fell. The light shining through and animating the film, then the narratives playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, because if it were, it couldn't be transgressed, like a temperature below absolute zero. Morality is the ideals that enable a functional society.

Culture tends to treat good and bad as some cosmic conflict, between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature, it is the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. So while our cultures are like stories we tell children to get them to cooperate, nature is some enormous computational process that doesn't always come up with the answers we want.

So maybe it might all prove to be educational. The brain is far more an evolutionary adaption to dealing with problems and pain, than basking in the pleasures.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-western-mind-906dc73cffe2