A Thought Experiment: The God of the Bowl of Fruit

Fruit and a Jug on a Table by Paul Cézanne, ca. 1890. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Consider this: You and I sit facing each other across a table. In the center of the table is a bowl of fruit. You ask me if I believe in God. I say yes. You ask what my god is like. I say my god is the bowl of fruit on the table. You ask what I mean. My god is separate from the bowl of fruit but present in and works through it? Or the bowl of fruit is itself a god with the usual attributes: itelligence, power and a plan? Or the bowl of fruit merely symbolizes my god? I say no, the bowl of fruit, no more and no less, is God. We might find much to debate— Is the bowl of fruit worth the name God? What are its attributes? What does faith in it entail? — but the one thing we would not debate is the existence of the bowl of fruit.