Divine Hiddenness

[R00tKiT]

I was speaking with a long-time friend of the family, who is a practicing Jew, about prayer and why god doesn’t reveal himself to his creation. His explanation was one that I actually had never heard before. Assuming free will for the sake of the argument, I’d say it’s one of the more reasonable (maybe I should say least irrational) explanations for god’s hiddenness that I’ve heard. If our parents followed us around everywhere we went, would we ever really be free to break the rules? Thoughts? 

“Just as God's purpose does not allow man to be a physical prisoner, neither does it permit him to exist in an intellectual prison. How would man behave if God were to constantly reveal Himself? Would he really be free? If man were constantly made aware that he was standing in the King's presence, could he go against His will? If God's existence were constantly apparent, this awareness would make man a prisoner.“

A god revealing himself is logically impossible. A human being can't comprehend an infinite being or even recognize one through their senses. An actual God and a highly sophisticated alien technology are indistinguishable for a human.

So we are left with reasoning, proof, inference through signs of design... the only way one somehow proves infinite things, thus theology lol.