I think the story was too confined to what us humans are used to. A father, trying to educate a child, an insightful child to the father's words, a growing fetus, a probably future-to-be father, etc, etc. All of these, are things we just almost instinctively think about, and all the "author" did, was to take that story we're so used to, and apply it to a more "divine" reality. Ofcourse, there's the added sense of relation to the story as a reader. Inevitably, if this story was true, the reader would be the hero of the story, and the reader would also be everyone else. That's where this "Mind [bleep]" factor is coming from.