While it may not be palatable, the best understanding potential suggests Torah was created ~700BC by Hezekiah as a means of welding a dozen tribes of desert raiders into a force capable of conquering empires. While it is impossible to well understand the extant metaphysical conception of the world common to those tribes, archaeological finds suggest some degree of Canaanite theology, and Torah incorporates awareness of theological traditions stemming from earlier civilizations, from Sumer to Egypt, at least. Abundant importation of earlier mythos' into Genesis strongly disputes the ascription of any of it to direct utterance of the creator of the universe to some Abrahamic prophet. Substantial later additions, such as the Book of Daniel, the New Testament, and Islam, only further support such rational interpretation.

Perhaps attempting to understand how consciousness arises might better reward your intellectual prowess, by fundamentally supporting understanding of our existence and relationship to the author of that edda. One of the marvelous things about us is our ability to recognize patterns, and the importation of successful sociological foundations into Judaism is not countermanded by the continual Rabbinic amendment in the Talmud, but can be better understood in that context, IMHO.

However, recognizing the sociological value of genetic devices need not be limited to any particular mythos, as Joseph Campbell discussed in 'Transformations of Myth Through Time', and considering matters via the scientific method does not accept any dogma, not even of the materialistic view promulgated as scientism. The reason with which you seek understanding recommends a broader consideration of our state of being, including whether confining consideration to discussions internal to a theology imported from prior mechanisms is superable, as it eventually will lead to deprecating novelty underlying the Islamic worldview, whereby we are required to ignore evidence of our eyes and ears to support dogma instead.

If I could more gently suggest your considerations seem confined to the theological format impressed upon you by the time and place of your birth, excluding by default a wealth of geneses ranging from unknown, presumably animistic traditions suggested by archaeological relics tens of millennia old, to Buddhism, and it's many derivations, to Zoroastrianism, and a variety of traditions eventually overwhelmed militarily in Europe only in the 17th Century after the subjugation of Lithuania, and derided as Polytheism, Pagan, or Heathen in the West today, I would. Such constraint fiercely employed by reason ultimately proceeds as you do in the OP, by finding irrational some dogmatic prescriptions that recommend better interpretation.

Schismatism isn't a new phenomenon and I doubt Abrahamic monotheism lacks the one true understanding properly sorting night and day might provide. We undertake one transit per flesh prison, and if yours is replete by such considerations, then you have attained to great success, though the absence of your discussion of quantum consciousness might impoverish rational consideration potentially bettering our human condition more substantively.

Thanks!