Oh My GOD! Breaking it down.

Religious texts are stories to divide people into groups that have the opposite mind-set, and since there is no tangible proof directly linked to the existence of any god, the argument is one that cannot be won in a logical manner. Believers and non-believers will have fuel for disagreement until one side just gives up. Knowing human nature we understand that this will never happen. Organized religion is a form of population control similar to, and in partnership with governments, division of the populace is conducive to more control over said populace, or in other terms a placated populace (a basic principle of conflict management).
There is a simple way to imagine our place within the universe. The molecular, or elemental composition of our bodies is, aside from inert elements that are of little use to an organism, proportionally IDENTICAL to the elemental composition of the universe. Basically we are the same as the universe we live in, and we are not even slightly special in the regard of our physical makeup. Not unless you count the inert elements missing from our bodies.
The miracle is and has been staring us in the face, growing clearer and clearer as we gain understanding of the universe. SOMETHING triggered the "big bang" and then removed their influence from the picture while the seemingly infinite cycles of creation went on as if scripted into the future forever. AMAZING and way more miraculous than some entity who, as described by the bible is “unknowable and incomprehensible to humans” talking to us and fiddling with earth like an ant farm. And if every parable and story of the bible explains the actions god takes and uses them to instruct us on our behavior, where’s the mystery?
Personally the deity stops at the big bang, anything after the big bang is tangible and can, or will be explained by the sciences through time.
Now prior to that I have my own little scenario.
The “IT” as I will now refer to what most call god, and I picture IT as pure energy alone in existence, perfectly balanced in Itself like the YIN/YANG but in an infinitely more complex manner similar to the sun's roiling mass, infinite vortexes of pure energy
……..What occurred within IT. Was
……..Outside of the IT, there was not
...…..Time was not
...…..What IT “thought”…….came to be. IT’s thoughts, now willful and not being IT but seeing IT, became unbalanced. Some of IT’s thoughts more so than others. IT did not like the way the situation had become, IT was fragmenting... losing it's own harmonious balance......IT wanted the perfect solution and BOOM!
IT’s energy became the matter of the universe, IT’s thoughts became the myriad of sentience, IT’s will now spread through every atom virtually powerless to act alone, but when grouped together in different ways those atoms allow IT's essence to manifest in various ways, and each element with slightly different properties, combines in forms such as ours to give us……..us.

Lincutious, the particularly peculiar assemblage of atoms.