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Could we not be worshiping twisted versions of old tales that parents told their children, or their people, to keep them in line before the great flood? And after the great flood, those stories then became real to the survivors who believed a naturally occurring event was caused by God?
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While I'm by no means an expert in the Bible (I haven't read it), seeing it in every hotel room I stayed made me quite suspicious of it as it screamed propaganda. My suspicions were later reaffirmed in the sources I found all by myself and learned to pay attention to over time. While some parts of the Bible might be true, other were manipulated, because lie is harder to discern when mixed with the truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLPkvz6G_MThe idea of outside God (as my creator) is inherently flawed. Because empirically everything I experience stems from me and therefore is already contained within me. I cannot experience the idea of God without me being there in the first place. Only I know what it's like to be me (thus only I can "create" myself) and any God I will ever experience will just be a reflection of God within me. God and its Creation are inseparable the same way a dancer and her dance are.