Why Would God Hide?

[dissily mordentroge]

If I claimed I had a personal relationship with Michelle Obama and I claimed to talk to her daily, but then couldn't answer anything about her that wasn't published in the written media, you'd call me a liar, and rightfully so.
The sad part would be if I didn't recognize myself as a liar.

The sad part is the religious often do have the experience of 'talking to' their deity or a manifestation of such an entity. A form of madness maybe but one our species has been prone to since the first witch-doctors and possibly earlier.
In his "The Dark Side of God" Douglas Lockhart tells us at the beginning of the chapter 'The Still Small Voice" :-
"In his quite extraordinary book The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind, Julain James cites some figures on auditory and visual hallucinations recorded during the last century in England. Using only normal people in good health these studies, it was shown that out of 7,717 men, and 7.599 women, hallucinations were experienced in 7.8 and 12 percent of the groups respectively. Oddly enough, twice as many visual hallucinations as auditory were recorded and such experiences were most frequent between 20 and 29 years of age. Jaynes points out that this is the exact age at which schizophrenia generally appears. . . . . . . . . . . for our purposes, however, his most important observation is that 'Hallucinations must have some innate structure in the nervous system.' Even schizophrenics profoundly deaf from birth can apparently experience auditory hallucinations, and these can range from the voice of God to that of angels, devils, enemies or dead relatives"
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion. that they should believe a lie: 2nd Thesolonians CH:2,V:11.