Conversely, how do you know that God does communicate directly to everyone, and it is just a matter of everyone not having ears to hear that communication.
I'll always draw on personal experience first. In personal experience, which matches what countless others who have experienced "God" or the Absolute firsthand, we all say the same thing. That we see for the first time, what has always fully been there the whole time, but we just couldn't see. That's my personal experience, and that of others.
You also have scripture. Jesus taught to consider the lilies of the field, for in them you could see God. The psalmist clearly says that the heavens declare the glory of God, and that is speaks words to the whole world. Jesus teaches that those who have eyes to see and ear to hear, meaning those who are spiritually awake and aware, will see God right there in what is said. He taught the kingdom of heaven was already here among us, and so on and so forth. Paul always speaks of creation as revealing God.
We also have to define what you mean by communication. If you mean an audible voice, that is different from some kind of sign from God.
One does not need to use audible words to communicate. In fact, that is probably the least effective way possible to communicate, comparatively speaking. Creation itself, shows infinite love, without words and letters and teachings, and doctrines, and theories, and models, and blah, and blah, and blah blah. Words can get in the way of seeing and hearing Truth.
The communication is something that arises of its own out of all that is created, speaking of the being of God that gives rise to all of it. But if we are busy trying to hear words from some person or another, we fail to hear God right in front of us, and inside us.
Are you saying that some people make a conscious choice not to go outside, so they never get communication from God?
It was a metaphor, of course. I mean that people become comfortable with the houses they erect around themselves, and they live inside of them, even if they are outside. They live inside a world in their heads, not in touch with the world that is right there in front of them. Anyone who has had an awakening experience, will say the same thing. What is seen, is Radiance itself, in all things. But with our eyes closed, that is turned inward to our "thought worlds", you don't see it. How can you, when you're staring the whole time at your feet instead of the mountain range in front of you?
It “appears” that way to you, but it is not observable that God communicates to anyone, let alone everyone.
It appears that way to me because of being in both the position of being asleep, and then being awake. It's the same thing for anyone else who has experience both. For those without the latter, the rest is just made up from that lack of experience to explain something they don't have personal reference for. Therefore, it comes out all weird, imaging unlike the sun whose rays light the way for everyone, God is selective. Jesus doesn't teach that, BTW. He taught that God causes the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust. Meaning, God radiates to everyone, regardless of their "station". This is what the Bible teaches.
It does not appear to me that God communicates to anyone except those He chooses to communicate to, the Prophets/Messengers.
So God is not the Light of the World then, since he has to hire some salespeople to tell them about the sun in the sky above them, as if they can't feel it's rays?
Psalm 19.
God might communicate to the minds of some people who are open to hearing, but that is not something that could ever be proven to have come from God and it does not come by way of audible speech.
This fixation on audible hallucinations, is just error. God doesn't need words. God communicates directly to our minds and hearts, without words. And it's not things like "Go ye therefore and make converts of other religions," or some such thing. It's more powerful, and simple than that. God is Love, is more to the point. All the rest flows of its own accord starting from that point.
Likewise, we cannot prove that God ever communicated to Messengers, but there is evidence of that in scriptures. Other people only have their personal testimonies that God communicated to them, but they have no evidence to support such a claim. That is the hundred-dollar difference.
I personally don't take any scripture to be a dictation from God. I see God in them, but that is not the same thing as saying God dictated them. I find that an error of a youthful understanding. Music can be inspired of God as well, without God writing the orchestral score.
I see that as a judgment but I believe only God can judge.
It's not a judgement. It's an observation of what we all do. Without understanding that it is us who either sees or does not see, puts the onus on us. To say God chooses, irrationally so, to withhold knowledge from us, to "hide" himself, as it were, does in fact make God responsible and us not. That is just logic.
For whatever reasons that only God knows, not all people are able to believe in God, let alone discern communication from God.
It's not just God that knows why, it's a lot of people who know why. You should listen to them.
