Ego eimi
This sayers the Lord
The pinnacle of hubris is thinking that mankind is not in need of God
I am not suffering from any such hubris!
I would happily embrace your god - or any god - if compelling, forensic-level evidence were to be presented before me!
I could not respect any "god" that demanded that I believe in him - or be damned to all eternity to a literal "Lake of Fire" - based upon a jumbled collection of various old, fragmentary, and in large part contradictory "Just So" stories told by primitive, superstitious Bronze Age tribesmen wandering the desert, used to explain to their children "why the sky is blue" and "how snakes could talk." Then handed down orally for centuries... then finally collated and committed to writing, only to be promptly revised, edited, translated, and retranslated. Then to be supplemented by a books of a "New Testament" created under very mysterious circumstances some 30 years, at least, after the events they purport to describe... codified, redacted, converted into Church Doctrine, banned or relegated to "Apocrypha" by various councils, revived, "modernized," reshuffled, and republished. Then to be superseded by "new revelations."
It's all really rather pathetic - but that part with the literal "Lake of Fire" takes the cake!
Regards,