"No, quite the opposite. You don't KNOW all that. You believe it.
If you have indeed achieved research that proves it, do say, because you'll be the first person in the world and you can make a fortune writing it all up.
Knowledge involves hard fact. " Chariklo, page 3
Here's the hard facts...
Your great-grandfather lived BEFORE you did. His bones, if tested, would show a greater age than yours - living or dead. Therefore, HE came FIRST.
The bible is only around 3,500 years old - perhaps 4,000 years old, if one allows a VERY GENEROUS 500 years for some sort of "oral tradition" - though studies of Irish oral traditions have shown that such oral traditions only remain somewhat "accurate" for a very few hundreds of years - though, in some instances, such as the super-nova depicted in Puebloan art in the desert southwest of America, it can record some events of up to a thousand years previous - but that is a rare exception.
The Sumerian civilization is older than the bible. Stonehenge is older than the bible. The Egyptian civilization is older than the bible - and incidentally, contains quite a few stories that obviously influenced Hebrew mythology.
The Gobele-Tepe temple builders built THEIR temples around 11,000 years ago - FAR older than the bible. The cave painters of southern France made their 'magical' hunting paintings around 12,000 to 30,000 years ago - FAR older than the bible.
Going back even further, the aboriginals of Australia were practicing their ancestor worship over 20,000 years ago, and may have even been practicing THAT form of religion as far back as 80,000 years to 120,000 years ago...
Going back STILL further, the "Berekhat Ram" figurine, a female figure FOUND IN ISRAEL, by the way - is over 200,000 years old - and was carved at a time when humanity ONLY carved items thought to be VITAL to human survival, like acheulean 'axes', so the presence of a female figurine is MOST SIGNIFICANT - probably the representation of one of the MOST ANCIENT FERTILITY GODDESSES....
So, just as your great-grandfather is OLDER than you, though deceased - and came BEFORE you - obviously, then the bible "god" or more accurately, "gods" - CANNOT be the "first god" on the planet.
Besides, the bible "god" of the old testament didn't even know what a VOLCANO was!!! Read Exodus 19: 16-19, for the evidence.
Either open your mind up, see reality and learn, or do not expect me to burn up my time upon a closed mind that has NOT hiked the miles, seen the rock formations and fossil layers, or camped in the glacial gouges that I HAVE...!!
Zid
