Thanks for a polite and thoughtful answer!

Billions of people believe in many other Gods, with equal fervor.

The fact that humans can't remotely agree on what is true with respect to God or Gods, over thousands of years, is not good evidence that their picture of the world is correct.

He rose his son from the dead. He parted the Red Sea.

So it is claimed. But there is no evidence of either of these claims other than a religious text.

I have read many religious texts from different belief systems, including multiple translations of the Bible, in whole or in part. Many of them claim all sorts of miracles. Such texts are not evidence.

"A book told me these miraculous things happened thousands of years ago" is no evidence, or we'd be obliged to also believe in Hanuman and Zoroaster.

Remember that billions of people have no idea of the contents of the Bible at all! So where's their evidence?

Evidence should be something like the evidence for gravitation — you throw a ball up, it comes down. No one doubts gravity exists (Einstein's theories describe and explain gravity, they does not refute it!), but people challenge gravity and often lose.

Everyone accepts the existence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Sun and Poughkeepsie and oxygen and momentum. There is a huge amount of objective evidence, both historical and up-to-the-minute contemporary, for all of these things, and simple experiments that could be performed by someone personally to verify that Poughkeepsie or momentum existed.

Shouldn't it be obvious in the same way that God exists? This is what I mean by "hide and seek": that the only way to find out about this incredibly huge proposition is to believe a specific book.

It's very reasonable ask for some sort of evidence that isn't a book that's trying to convince people of a religion.

Every religion has their book. Each religion presents their book as evidence that they are right and the other religions are wrong.

Muslims and Judaists partly share your book, but have other books too.

Much of your article is explaining how your practice is different from most other Christians'.

Thousands of choices of God, each without any solid evidence like that which exists for electricity or Tierra del Fuego, each relying on old books or verbal tradition.

By far the simplest answer is that all the religious books and choices are wrong: the universe is exactly as it appears to be.

Don't get me wrong: I want some basis to believe! I am not young: death is not near, but it sure approacheth. It would be utterly fantastic to have at least some sort of hope that death wasn't the end. I'd accept even a good hint.

But "our book is right" doesn't convince me, no matter how hard I try, and no solid evidence of this huge claim is offered.

Thanks again, have a good day!