The concept of the God of Heaven is about the same to me as the Wizard of Oz. The people/witches/munchkins all believed in the Wizard because they had heard so much about him and how great and powerful he was, even though they had never seen him or heard him speak personally. After Dorothy landed, the good witch Belinda appeared, like an angel. She called the munchkins who lived there to come out to greet Dorothy, and after hearing her plight, she sent her to Oz to see the Wizard, or God, via the streets of gold, aka the yellow brick road, with the promise that he could and would help her get back home or "save her" if she just goes to him and asks.

After a long and frightfully, adventurous journey to the Wizards castle, Dorothy, Toto and their new companions were anxious to get what they went there for, a brain, courage, a heart, and to go back home. When they arrived, the castle guard would not let them in until he found out that the witch was after Dorothy. He had told them that they could not see the wizard because "nobody has ever seen the wizard", at which point one of the travelers asked him how then does he knows he exists, stumping the flustered guard. After being primped and polished to meet the great and powerful wizard, the group was taken back to a long corridor that led to his "throne".

They went in together and upon seeing the enormous image of the Wizards face high on a wall, surrounded by flickering flames, and hearing his booming voice, they were terrified. But after coming such a long distance, they were willing to face their fears and tell him what they wanted. When they dared to try to explain their situation, he loudly demanded they bring him the broomstick of the wicked witch first...a nearly impossible feat, fraught with much danger. But they set out on their mission and after nearly dying in the process, they eventually achieved their goal by melting the witch. They returned with the witch's broomstick, but the wizard was still avoiding upholding his end of the deal of granting their wishes in return.

It was the little dog Toto that revealed the wizard was actually just a man by pulling back the curtain he was hiding behind. They saw him pulling levers and pushing buttons to create the images of himself that caused them to experience feelings of awe, fear and trembling. The one thing he as a man, not a wizard, did to help was show them that they had the power within themselves to make their dreams/wishes come true. They didn't need a wizard/God to do it for them. We need each other, family and friends to help us get through at times, like Dorothy and her friends needed each other, and Dorothy also realized that she needed her family in Kansas and they needed her, but that's all. Not a wizard, not a fortune teller, and not a deity.

Yet even though he was found to be a fake, chances are high that if Dorothy, the tin man, the lion and the scarecrow had gone back and told the munchkins what they discovered, they would not believe them and would continue to believe in the Wizard. That's because they had been conditioned to believe and they willingly accepted it on the word of others. They were also comforted in believing that an all powerful being lived in their land who would help anyone who went to see him. So even though they never saw him personally, and never would, and others had testified to the fact that he was not real, they would most likely continue to believe anyway. And so it is with people of faith when science attempts to prove the Bible is not a science book and evolution has a whole lot of evidence to support it while creationism has none.