To follow on from that; if a God (if such a thing exists) wanted to communicate with us mortals, it seems logical that he would choose to use one or more of us mortals to do so - yet he would do so in the sure (all knowing) certainty that they would be branded odd at best and insane at worst and almost universally ostracised - other than by other similarly 'misguided' folk of course.

Of course one may argue that he does it this way because he is testing our faith - that if we were to just believe what these people were saying then all would be well. Naturally that's what we would expect such people to say. So the fact that we don't believe them should be equally expected. Yet despite this, God keeps trying the same method?

It seems to me that at the very least, God requires a new communications strategy.