And your words are excellent as always, Benjamin.

Yet a belief that is a two-trap door is truly not very strong. I will undermine your construct.

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In the Beginning was the Word, and the word Word is actually a translation from the Greek word Logos. I am sure you recognize it.

The difference between a logical construct and a fantasy is actually not too difficult to draw, and I am not talking religion per se, just in general. A construct has to have actual meaning, otherwise it is a fantasy.

The fun part about theory is that it is one step removed from what we know as facts or what is known from observations. Above or among these outcomes we can place the theory, for instance how all may relate to one another.

We do not need to make the theory real, just plausible, just connected to the actual information and not undermined by any of that information.

Now, if we start with a construct and call it God, then we can envision opening the door of that construct and walk in. Yet, we have not yet made that house real, so we need to be careful right that at the front door. We have not yet created Theo among the facts. When there is no connection, then we do not have a Logos, we just have someone's words.

It turns out that this is already a very hard position to support. There is no evidence, except for all evidence, and even with all evidence it need not be true that there is a connection for all in a divine entity.

I hope you see where I am going. I am still at the front door.

The first position is to accept a construct for which there is serious doubt in as far as presented. But... it can be true, that's why the word Theo can be used, since an actual connection can exist.

Then however, on top of that, God is also called out as capable of creating miracles (red flag), as having created creation from nothing at all.

That is a very deep rabbit hole.

Devil's advocate you may play, but there isn't much in your advocate's briefcase that has any value.

Sure, a belief can take in the highest position in someone's mind, considering it to be absolutely true. Yet we can demand from that person to make God real.

Notice therefore in your words as devil's advocate that you let go of the link between God and the resulting outcomes. In your last paragraph you let go of the connection. There is then no there there.

If such a God exists as you describe, then there is no difference between believing in that God and not believing in that God because the God you described is not connected at all.

Your God in this reply is not an actual God, just a fantasy position that has no value. We have to bring the military and the mob to give this position value.

In the beginning of this belief you advocated for, there is no Word; there is no Logos.