There is no reason why anyone has to believe it, is there? It's a parable.

Anyway, if you had the kind of understanding of God that is presented in the religions of the East: that "God" is the entire continuum and fabric of Life itself...all consciousness, purpose, and energy...manifesting as apparently separate phenomena in this World...then you would have little or no trouble believing it.

I think, Guy Who Thinks, it is your presumption that "God" must be necessarily separate from you (if God exists at all)...a distinct and separate being...that is hanging you up. God is not separate from anyone or anything whatsoever. You're like an atom in the body of God. You're like a single thought in the mind of God.