Evidence for Believing

[Inqwizitor]

You do understand that the video was not meant to be an exact depiction of the Biblical god, but a sardonic depiction meant to show how ridiculous some of the stories, and the god depicted is, right?

For example; a god that wants all of humanity to believe and worship him, yet only appears to a very small geographical area, and a barbaric and illiterate tribe.

So you don't believe in the bible ergo God does not exist? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to say that the bible is one nation's story about their faith? It would be ridiculous if God only cared about the Jews, I agree with that. And I'm not anti-semitic at all. The bible is not a comprehensive vision of God, it's a collection of books about a particular human narrative, that may or may not have happened.

I do believe in Yahweh/Jahweh, yes.  Praise Jah.    The descriptor is etymologically from Hebrew and means what causes to exist. That is God. The root of all being.

So, does this thing that 'causes to exist', is it a being? Or can it be an unknown natural process?
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natural, no, because nature is limited to space, time, matter and energy. Neither a being nor a process, but whatever it is that causes anything to be. Personally I like Aristotle's idea of God as the pure act of being. I also don't think acknowledging this requires any faith in the bible. The bible describes a possible revelation to one species in this little corner of a group of a spiral arm of a speck of dust in the natural universe, that I happen to believe in. That doesn't make its claims more palatable to someone who believes in the uniformity of nature (that miracles never happen) but its faith in something particular, in a particular place, at a particular time, and not a philosophical treatise on all that God is and does.