Let me illustrate my problem a bit:
A man comes walking from the east, carrying with him a book of wisdom from the Eastern Ruler. The man's name is reported variously as Yahveh, Jehovah, or just plain God. The book says that happiness, fullfillment, and security comes from obedience to the writer of that book. It says that the writer is 'worthy' of our love and adoration. It reports miracles performed by the man from the East. It tells us how to make requests from the man. It tells us that all our problems will be solved if we have 'faith' in the man from the East. When we ask to 'see' the man - we are told that we can only 'see' him with our eyes of faith. When we ask the man to solve our problems, we are told that we must have 'faith' that the man will solve them in His way, in His time, at His bidding. When we ask serious questions about why he doesn't show himself and prove himself, his 'faithful' followers just issue more of the same insistence on our 'lack of faith' as the problem.
Over time, millions of people buy into the 'man from the East' legend. They become known as Christians, in honor of the man's son, also one who performed miracles without evidence centuries before. Yet none of them ever see him, any more than do the skeptics. None of them get a better or happier or longer life than those skeptics. None of them can attest to any real interaction with this man, or his son, than any of the skeptics.
Time goes on, turning into millennia, and still the man never shows. The millions have become billions now. Still the same persistent inablility to show any real evidence of his having either written the book or done what the book suggests is ever provided.
On the other side of the planet, the same scenario is being worked out - this time the man is called Allah. His prophet is known as Mohammed. The story is much the same. The claims are much the same. Over time, both groups claim divine interest in their side of the matter. Yet none of these people can ever so much as get their divine authority to speak from the throne to them personally.
And so it goes.....
Jeff