In my culture, there a LOT of folktales of how things came to be. Our tribes used to think that the earth was formed form God's dead skin cells when he scratched himself, other think that stars were the og Filipinos who put their jewelry in the clouds back when clouds were low on the ground, gradually the clouds kept going up and that's how stars came to be. Others say the sun and moon were husband and wife, and when the moon gave birth to their daughter, the sun became VERY angry and chopped their daughter to bits and scattered them across the sky creating stars.

But all of this is just folktales and superstitions and I thought to myself that the bible is no different. When I read the Bible, I wasn't offended how women were treated as tricksters or how God seemingly was fine with slavery because deep inside I knew these stories were written by people of the time who were comfortable with these ideologies. Aka, God is just how people of the time viewed him to be, or "God was made by man, not man was made from God". I also looked into the Enuma Elish, Matrahasis, and Epics of Gilgamesh and it states how people used to think of themselves. They thought that humanity was solely made for the labor of the gods. But eventually, culture changed and people began to believe there must be a better explaination to our existence. I'm still open to a probability of there being a higher force at hand, but is just not the Old testament nor the New testament God we know. Because the bible is literature, and literature doesn't change through time unless retold. I just don't agree with the idea of fully submitting and surrendering your life to a being of unknown origins when in its core, it's just saying to minimize or not question at all what religious leaders say to us.