He provided a means for all people to know him, even before the relatively recent age of widespread literacy and the ability to print books—a time period that still represents the minority of the Christian epoch. God played a cruel joke on humanity if he intended all Christians throughout history to be like modern Protestants and know the truths of the Faith by “reading their Bibles” (which they didn’t have, since Bibles were handwritten and extremely expensive, and which they couldn’t have read anyway, because most were illiterate).
