[05/01/2025]: Existence of God, literally and figuratively

I was raised as an atheist and I don't believe that I'll ever be in an organised religion, but lately I've been questioning whether there may actually be a God. Not in any way that a religion depicts Him, with a narrative which science has poked holes in, but in the simplest sense: a creator of the world, or a presence much stronger than all of humanity, which we could never be aware of.

The more I think about it, the more I realise how utterly arrogant it is for us to believe we could ever know everything happening in the universe. Saying that one thing is unprovable doesn't automatically mean that it doesn't exist, it's simply unprovable.

Then I began thinking, if we were to define God as simply a greater being which made us who we are, isn't God real through the form of society? Doesn't the environment we're raised in form us, as different people react differently to this environment?
To sin is to commit an act against God, so isn't to sin simply to commit an act seen as immoral by society's standards?
If we were to define God by this simpler definition, then He would exist on some level.

In a sense, if someone believes something, or even if someone just imagined something, it becomes real to an extent. Money is something completely fabricated by humanity, of an imaginary, socially constructed worth and yet we consider it real.

I'm not sure whether or not I can call myself an atheist anymore. I can't make any claims about if the existence of a higher being is true or false, and I believe both sides will never have any "proof" in their favour -- theists will never be able to truly "prove" God is real and atheists will never be able to "prove" that there is nothing.