Articulating the Hiddenness of God

I realized in my last post as I reflected on Dr. Rae's lecture that
many of you may not be familiar with the specific problem addressed.
For those unfamiliar with the "Problem of the Hiddenness of God" here
is a basic primer:

The Problem assumes:
1. God exists and should show up
2. If God loves us as a perfect parent, then he must communicate
himself to us since good parents want to be known
3. But God is mostly hidden
4. There is not good reason for God to remain hidden
5. Therefore, God is not loving as we think and doesn't exist

Dr. Rae went on to show that there are reasons for God to remain hidden:
1. Allows us the freedom to grow and love by choice and to respond to
God freely
2. Hiddenness stimulates us to seek after God
3. By remaining hidden, God can't be manipulated by us.
4. God has a personality and it is unreasonable for us to expect him
to behave a certain way just as it is unreasonable for us to expect
others to behave in certain ways

Conclusion:
The pain we feel from divine silence is our problem, not God's. It
is evidence of our immaturity, expecting the world and the divine to
revolve around our needs, whims and desires.