I tend to throw out the bible and look to mystics for my concept of God. Been working on- I'm creature of many filters. Cultural, physical, emotional, logical, irrational.. The great mystics don't seem to have so many filters. We're here, God is here.. want to see God, open your eyes. That's hard intellectually and (for me) hard bordering on impossible, experientially.
But that's what I strive for. Walking silently in nature I get inklings. I'm meditating outdoors more these days, I like it, but what I'm looking for has to be outside meditation, outside looking. Beyond satori into something lasting. It feels like a retreat, a great substraction, might be the push I'd need to come closer to it. But being a material guy I'm loath to give up my material ways.. but the time will come.