I did not make it up but shared my understanding of the old and still taught, ancient lineage of Advaita Vendanta.
Advaita Vedanta Philosophy (not faith) does say what I tried to convey.
The many ideas of what the definition of God is compete and all fail by being definitions which distinguish one thing from another.
A God that is before creation and during the creation and, outside of time, can not be defined by contrast to another God.' like a blue lily to a yellow rose.
No one posits a God existing without 'consciousness', or not being of the nature of consciousness, as though consciousness were an option.
The reality of 'consciousness' is non-negateable, we all claim consciousness, but it can not be known by sight, sound, taste, touch or smell. Consciousness exists, is non-negateable, can't be measured, proved nor disproved by the sciences. Yet we know it.
The conscious one is there from birth to death and all the changes of body mind, memory, emotions, knowledge, desires, and abilities do not, have not, and can not change the simple-continuous-existent-consciousnesss that has been there all along as witness of the changes.
If God is understood as Existence (known in the world) and Consciousness (known in the self), then one's own being is proof of Divinity.
The idea that 'consciousness' is only as big as one body is an unproven belief.
My bodily death does not negate the reality of continuing consciousness. I do not claim that I as this body, this mind, this neural-linguistic-sensory complex continues, nor my self-identity. All that dies. My death does not kill consciousness.
I say only that "Existence" and "consciousness" are not adjectival qualities. They are the very essence of knowing-beings.