My point is that if a god exists why aren't be all aware of its existence in a way which can't be denied by anyone? For instance, we can all see the sun, moon and stars, and there is plenty of verifiable evidence they aren't an illusion. So if god is there, but making its existence a matter of faith, it is treating humankind very unfairly, especially if there are dire consequences for unbelief, as some folk believe to be the case.
That's a fair point although I think we know that people are capable of denying anything and everything and sometimes stuff to themselves.
I think there are sound philosophical reasons for thinking that that which is not derived but is actual would not be subject to material examination and would not be material. We shouldn't be taken aback by things not susceptible to scientific or empirical examination since we can never empirically measure or observe a state before the empirical or go back to before infinity if that is the case.
I don't think there are dire consequences for just not getting God but there probably are for excising or avoiding God but the consequences spring from ourselves and our not wanting to change or to put it another way what brews up internally.
I think that any experience of the revelation of God starts with what have been referred to as Inklings or the metaphorical ''smell of God'' or the numinous. The description that I can most relate to as describing early awareness of something more comes from Evelyn Waugh who describe it as 'The twitch on the thread'.
