Semantics is the problem.
People who believe can't know, because they believed too quickly, too easily.
They really did not need a rational picture of the whole complicated and complex theological dovetailing of scripture. They got the basic idea, albeit Intuitively.
That is cool.
That's what is meant by faith.
Science people ought relate to this intuitive process because they use it, too. Like, before some ideas are really flushed out, be ore they seem exactly right, the scientist sort knew he was on to the right direction.
A few first steps, a hypothesis, and one or two provable theories, and bango! Eureka! "I know this is right!"
Dalton saw Atoms as the basic unit of matter, little solid balls banging together in the Kinetic Theory of Matter, right!
Wrong. They're not solid. But, he still knew he was ALMOST right. He had enough to make him BELIEVE.
All you need is a step by step rationale that you know makes sense.
At some point, as the reasoning gets more convincing, you'll know it seems right. Sooner or later, with enough to rely on, you'll BELIEVE.
The first step is to hypothesize a definition for the terminology God. You'll need a concept for God which you will be able to relate to: some all powerful, all controlling entity that makes sense to you.
Try starting at page one, and let's just read a couple of passage
to break the ice:
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God, (The Universal Force) created the heaven and the earth.
Gen. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God (the Natural Laws) moved upon the face of the waters.
THEN SKIP DOWN:
These couple of verses prepare us for the coming evolution of Jesus in the New Testament:
Gen. 1:26 And God, (The Universal Force, the Macrocosmos), said, "Let us, (the Natural Laws), make man, (a conscious mind, to model us, the Universe, as in a Microcosmos of his mind, in order that our image might be modeled after our own orderly organization): and let him (that conscious mind,) have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Gen. 1:27 So God (The Universal Force) created man (an abstract mind in his own image, enabled to image The Universal Force, abstractly and mathematically), so created God (The Universal Force) him; male and female created he them.
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