>If, as it is written, God spoke to people in
>biblical times - they had no need of ancient texts.
Plus, they were illiterate. But, as I will write, there had to be a way for the few people who "experienced God" directly to pass on their witness of their experience, which leads to oral tradition, then written tradition.
>They directly experienced God. Why can't we get the
>message the same way?
Very few people, even in the biblical record, experienced God directly. I'll go out on a limb and say that most of the people who followed Jesus and believed in him after his ascension did so based on the second-hand testimony of the few that witnessed his life and miracles.
