Do you see any benefits to religious faith?

[Arkilogue]

Assuming we are speaking allegorically .. where else would/could it be?  The mistake is to think 'God' created the cosmos.  Obviously false.  He also didn't create me or any other physical thing.  But, if you are looking for a place to tuck God in, where better than your own little brain?

All the talk in Genesis of separating up from down and dark from light and so on is best understood as the eve-devo development of our own consciousness.  'God' got me squared away in the womb and built the world as it exists in my mind.  'He' also created 'me' - as in whatever it is that makes me distinctive as an individual.  Since 'God' didn't actually create even one physical thing, there need be no gotcha moment regarding creating trees before the sun.  The world as it exists in my comprehension isn't subject to those kinds of causal connections.  It can be put together in whatever order and manner that is necessary.

Still, there is plenty of reason to suspect there is knowledge and wisdom within which you can only sometimes tap.  The conscious mind is a tool created to serve the total self.  Drive it into a ditch and you can be grounded .. from within.  'God' exists if you want to call it that - but I don't.

What part of the brain? And what makes the space inside my brain different from the space outside? If we are talking about the mind, does it have volume so that "God" could hide within or a membrane "God" might be lurking beneath?

I also see Genesis through metaphoric eyes... A "day" in old term can also mean a realm or world. The "day" as described in Genesis is from evening to morning....a relative falling and a rising of light.

Genesis 1:55..... there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Non-relatively there has only ever been "one day" on planet earth...think from the perspective of the sun.


Many new versions have "the first day" but in Hebrew the word is "e-had" and it means the number 1 http://biblehub.com/hebrew/echad_259.htm

These mean "first/chief/foremost" and could have been used:
http://biblehub.com/hebrew/7225.htm
http://biblehub.com/hebrew/7223.htm