Ask, Seek, Knock

[Darkstar]

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Now let's think for a moment that the guy has the wrong address and spends literally his whole life knocking on the door, never realizing that the house is abandoned.

Read the story in Luke 11. The door he knocks on is a neighbor. He has a dialog with Him. He knocks because he knows there is someone home.

Yeah! Just like the guys who invented Zeus, it was the best they could come up with! or...they saw how sucussful older religions had been at controlling people and decided to try it out for themselves. Here's a thought: if this is the One True Faith™, then why isn't it the first?

It was with Adam in the Garden.

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How so? Many older religions have creation myths as well.

[quote=Darkstar] You would think that god would have chosne to reveal himself before paganism got popular. After all, worshiping him, rather than some pagan god, is one of the ten commandments (the first, in fact!). You would think it would have been a higher priority for him.

Why are their other gods? Because like you not all men want to worship The God. They want to have a say in what is right and how they worship. With The God of the bible it is not possiable. So they create their own gods.
Uh...what? There are more evil gods than Yahweh out there. I am not asking why man created god, that much is clear, I'm asking why god waited millenia to correct them.
Timeline of religion

7500 - 5700 BCE The settlements of Catalhoyuk develop as a likely spiritual center of Anatolia. Possibly practicing worship in communal shrines, its inhabitants leave behind numerous clay figurines and impressions of phallic, feminine, and hunting scenes.

2494 - 2345 BCE The first of the oldest surviving religious texts, the Pyramid Texts, are composed in Ancient Egypt.

950 BCE The Torah begins to be written, the core texts of Judaism and foundation of later Abrahamic religions

The OT seems a little 'late to the party', wouldn't you say?