Wel...I can only talk for myself. Because I don't know if God is just awareness, I just believe that he/she is pure Love and Light.
I believe that many religious books has _some_ basic (and important) truths. But I'm trying to base my belief in my daily experiences. I don't know if we are created in the image of God, althought I just feel that there's something right in that sentence. Because I believe that I'm part of that Light too.
Maybe the whole thing is like a fractal , everything is self-similar. We 'came' from the Light and we are part of the Light. Small note: I don't really like the word 'came' in a temporal sense. Since I strongly believe that time is an illusion, a temporal illusion ;)
There's a lot of people that just 'knows'. I can feel it on their eyes. Even if they don't speak about it.
Note that in my post I'm using very subjective terms: "I think", "I feel", "My intuition tells"... Because that's all I want to do. It may sound contradictory, but sometimes, I feel that Descartes' method works great on spirituality for me.