[split] Are Questions About God Important?

[Thumpalumpacus]

So the things that you wanted in life during a dark time: hope, purpose, love, morality, protection, etc you got a strong sense of being true whilst receiving a pleasant numinous experience which you interpreted as being connected to the key religious figure of your existing cultural milieu.

I'm sure it seemed profound and meaningful, and I'm glad that it helped you escape a bad place in your life, and I'm also glad you are not blindly following the bible but rather evaluating it within the light of your own conscience.  But it does seem very much likely to me to be a purely psychological experience, the benefits of which could be had without any belief in the supernatural or Christianity.

Indeed. I've had very similar experiences as an atheist. I see them as a matter of my subconscious brain figuring it out and communicating it to my conscious self.