Phatboy,
Belive it or not, you won't draw critisizim for your belifes here. Your stance is actually very sensible. People draw fire when they profese things that clearly aren't true. i.e. Bible inerrancy, all the OT etc. Ya know, the folks that think they got it all figured out on gods side
I agree with you that God is likely much deeper than all of this. And it is a matter of faith. It's when christians try to make it a matter of science and fact which it clearly is not. Remember, just because it's based on faith dosn't necisseraly make it less fundamentaly true.
I happen to think Christianity, based on Jesus's teachings, is a beutifull system of belif and ethics. An most people on this site would never dreem of contesting a supernatural element to existence. Yet, have you not ever considered that the supernatural and the natural, may be one and the same? I mean, we are all here on earth aren't we