So God's word is not sufficient. Interesting. Are you Catholic?
In another sense of the word, I am..........
I mean any kind whatsoever, so long as it is self-consistent and well defined. No evidence required. These are nonnegotiable as minimum requirements.
As I've said in other places, if the Bible does not provide us comprehensive information on any topic---just indices--then we'll not find what we today would qualify as an 'explanation.' Thus, if the Biblical writers didn't know enough to fill in all of the details in a systematic, comprehensive way, then we're essentially left with existential poetry of sorts. The Bible isn't nothing, but it may not be the 'something' that many are looking for today. Ultimately, since the Bible does not explain God's metaphysics, nor provide a systematic epistemology, then our decision to 'believe' and thereby place faith in Christ will ultimately come down to Axiological qualities that we are either drawn to Existentially through our personal conceptual aptitudes and preferences, or......we'll reject them. For me, it comes down to an Aesthetic, existential choice after I've considered everything else, such as.......the weaknesses of Atheism as a final position on the God question.
Well it's not a clarification... you just misread it initially.
Ok.
Right, so like I said, unfortunately I'm not sure what there is to discuss. Your religion does not meet the absolute bare minimum requirements to stake a claim at solving the problem of existence.
And your atheism, true to form, evades the various Hermeneutical considerations that I personally (Subjectively) think are relevant, at least as I see it. But, there's also those nasty epistemological problems I've so often talked about in the past regarding the nature of the Christian faith, so not all of my complaint can be laid at your doorstep. Some, just not all of it.
And why is that? No, really. Why?
I love vicious circles, don't you?
None of that is relevant to causality.
....forgive me, but it's almost like you want God to show up and provide the final Unification Principle so you can know the full answer to the mystery of our existence, universe and all (i.e. us). Unfortunately, despite what Fundamentalist Christians will say, I don't think God has intended to give us that info. So, what Frank Close said at the end of the short vid I provided is as close as any of us will ever get to even beginning to link the concepts together.
I suggest that if you're REALLY wanting to find belief, you expand your Hermeneutical horizons ... beyond the typical directions in physics and cosmology.