Without knowing and being in God's grace, we make up our own gods and justify ourselves from our own moral judgements. There is no ruler to measure Truth with. People create the gods that they desire. You can't create or make up who we want God to be. Neither shall we worship and pray to an "impersonal universe", mother earth, nature etc. These are His creations, they are not the one and true Creator. Everything has a maker; the painting has a painter and a building has a builder.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
