Will the Real God Please Stand Up!

The more I study the sciptures (Jewish Old Testament and Chrsitian New Testament) the more I feel the God that it reveals, somehow remains hidden, maybe by design, inspire of the scriptures constant moments of clarity. I can understand why, the main reason is human nature and I have found, through spiritual practice, that my own human nature resists any desire to give up control to anything or anyone outside of myself. The bible can say in 1 John that "those who love have seen God because God is love" but then when you actually talk about the challenging nature of that statement, religious people have a problem not putting some sort of theological limit of boundary on "seeing God". Love is never enough.....

however, I am more convinced in the almost 40 years I have been living that it is only love that has ANY power in this world. It is thie only thing that levels the playing field between the rich, poor, slave, free, male, female, race, heterol homo sexual, saint, sinner, genius and mentally handicapped. If the True God of the scriptures claims to love all then He certainly doesn't expect us to jump through theological or ethical/moral hoops to experince fullness and life. If the bible says it is opento all then it either means all or we need to stop reading it as a one of the most dangerous books ever printed.

I am not against the scriptures, in fact the opposite, I just feel that the people who would argue with me the moat about the challenges they have with the last paragraph I just wrote are the ones who think they are standing on the scriptures, and the ones who would agree with me are the ones who most likely never even read the scriptures but follow a true sense of love within their hearts. It's not religious, it's deeper and more interior, it's their spirit ekes Ed with the fabric of the Kosmos and in harmony with all that is being created in every moment through love. Often I wonder why I find love inside the community of people called the church but often I find it even easier and deeper outside that community, without the bagge of judgement and withut the weight of theological systems that require an IQ that would rule out some of my nest friends (OK, after a few beers) but would rulenout lots of people born with mental and emotional disorders.

if the scriptures seesm to make God as love so clear, then why do the very people who claim to worship this God end up being the ones who want to fight? Why does the True God remain hidden?