What better way to destroy someone's faith than to prove to them that they have answers for nothing. Religion is the answer giver, the giver of a bunch of profoundless answers to a thousand made-up problems. What better way to show you how much you don't know God than to throw you into total confusion. To show you that your problems and your answers are of your own imagination. To reveal to you the true problems and the true answers which exist. Since a trouble is not trouble unless it's your trouble. Since a problem is not a problem until it's your problem. It appears that this task is best reserved for God's hand.
In order for me to know God, my faith needed to be destroyed. Mighty powers were not involved in that destruction - just a lot of care and compassion from someone above (Christ) and someone below (Brent). But if mighty powers are required to destroy the faiths of the world, then that is what God will do. God is never out of options.