What is wrong with having stuff written down, if it is clearly written and easy to understand?
One of the issues with writing down stuff, especially at the time where it were done, is that these texts are lost. And thereby the teachings, the stories were original shared orally and first later written down. Secondly the teachings were written down in a language that only few people spoke in comparison to the amount of people living at the time. So I don't see how it can be argued that this was done to make it clear to everyone.
If the teachings had been revealed at the same time, independent of each other to all people then that would have made a lot stronger argument I think.
Nobody could ever understand God if God spoke to them directly because there is too big of a chasm between God and man, and that is why God uses Messengers who act as intermediaries; since they have a divine mind and they are also human they can bridge the gap.
I think this is assuming something for which there is no reason for. There is nothing especially difficult to understand about God and what he have done or created, would he choose to explain it. This, at least to me, are not complicated in any way and would be easily understood by humans.
Basically what God would have to explain is the following, which would be enough for us to understand his motives:
1. Have God always existed?
2. What is the purpose of us, in a Universe as big as it is, basically why did he create us in the first place?
3. Why doesn't he just get rid of evil?
4. What is the purpose of us living on Earth, if he want us to come live in a new world?
5. What is the point of sins?
The only reason, no one can answer these questions is because there is no good explanation to find anywhere in the scriptures. But understanding God's reason for it being like that, is not more complicated than so many other things. To me its like saying that we just can't understand the Big bang because its to complicated. Yet im fairly certain that if God or some other being which knew how it worked, came and explained it to us, that it would be rather logical and not at all difficult to understand.
So again the only reason we don't, is because God have not cared to explain himself. Which is then used as an excuse to say that its because we wouldn't understand it. To me that is a false assumption.
Even if we could understand God directly, God revealing the truth to everyone would not accomplish God’s objectives. God wants us to search for the truth, and if we find it we can choose to accept or reject God’s teachings and laws because we have free will.
I think, I asked you this in the other long discussion we had as well, or maybe it was one of the other people
But anyway Ill do it again. The excuse of free will doesn't work as far as I see it.
The reason being. If humans were created with free will, then that would cause a conflict with the idea prophecies. As you have mentioned before, you believe that it was prophesied that Baha'u'llah would comes as it is said in the bible. Yet the question is, that if we have free will, could anyone prevent Baha'u'llah? Lets say, would it be possible for someone to have killed his great grandparents, so he would never have been born?
To me, free will and the idea of prophecies does not go hand in hand, they are in conflict with each other and one prevent the other from being true,
So saying that God wants us to seek the truth, makes little sense if prophecies are possible, because the truth have already been determined by God and therefore little reason for having us wasting time seeking or finding it out.
If we take this even further, it would also not be possible for someone to choose whether or not they want to accept or reject God teachings or laws. Because assuming everyone did reject them, none would have cared to write them down and therefore the prophecies wouldn't have been possible either. For the prophecies to come true, things have to go according to what God have already decided, leaving no room for free will.
God wants us to work for what we get and study what He reveals, not just have it given to us for free.
Exactly the same answer as above.
Moreover, we are all capable of understanding God’s teachings because we all have a rational mind.
This is confirming what I wrote in the start of this reply, that if God explained it to us, we would understand it, right?