But Sky's point is very valid to this discussion! Which comes first, the individual or "God"? Who has thought up whom?

I believe Sky, that God Is, as you state. However, how do I "learn"/get to "know" this and what is "It" that I get to know? I believe I have experienced love and that I have experienced God's Love but there is no way to share that experience or experience someone else's experience because I am an individual. I think the archtype and Jung's collective unconscious is the best approximation of sharing/knowing another's experience. Jesus told a great many stories, the Bible is full of stories, more stories than direct "instruction" about God or how one was to relate to God. I think the stories serve the purpose of adding to all that is "known" about God, down through time; which describes, for my purposes, pretty much what Jung is stating. I can only "know" God through myself and my insides; I have never been able to find him "out there".