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If I said yes, I'd caveat that by saying, "we're not special." There's no interaction, quid pro quo or otherwise, with whatever presence, energy, or overmind that I would conceptualize as a deity.
Not an architect. Not a creator. Omnipotence and omniscience defy temporality. There are, similarly, no subdivisions of the deity; there are no places that it is present, and others that it is absent. No underboss gods, angels, demons, heavens, hells, or purgatories.
The deity, in my understanding, is simply a unity: An answer to paradoxes, a solution to the incomprehensible, a layer beneath and above all other measurements, concepts, and capacities. A holographic whole that encompasses and inhabits every possibility. It is older than the universe and beyond our feeble attempts to comprehend it, let alone write its character and tell its story.
A bearded white dude who impregnated a virgin, hates masturbation, holds vendettas, destroys cities, sends plagues, and permits humans to hide from "HIM" in the garden of good and evil... it is all just silly by comparison. At that's just from the tradition I was raised in.
I mean, a burning bush? Or tests of faith?
We, people and all other organisms that are aware of one another, need to get on with finding ways to coexist. Biodiversity is the scorecard.
/rant
Your vocabulary is far more extensive than mine but I share a similar belief. We are one of the infinite manifestations of what we call god for lack of a better term. The illusion of separation is a temporary tool to create circumstances that lead to experiences. Infinitely… we are purposely not equipped with the ability to comprehend the infinite, as it would counteract the experience… I know this to be true. But I can’t fathom the why nor how.