The best example of this is Noah:
Noah didnt prove his message was from God through any miracles like the Apostles did. Yet Noah was right, he was the man of God.
So my question is: WHY does God use humans? Wouldn't it be much more effective to just appear to everyone in Noah's day and send them an angel or appearing from God, a supernatural encounter telling them "HEY, Repent or a floods coming". Most people would heed that warning.
If Jesus came to me right now and said "build a boat" I'd start building right away, "Yes, Lord". BUT, if some human came to me and said: "You need to build a boat or else" i'd tell him "you're crazy! leave me alone!"
No doubt I would of drowned in Noah's day lol.
Why does God use humans, instead of appearing to the people directly, does the Bible answer this question?
God has no needs but satisfies all. I would think because God is not served by human hands, with hands representing will in the Bible . We as new born again creatures understand we walk by faith the unseen eternal and not after what the fleshly eyes see and our fleshly ears hear. .
He established that law of faith believing Him not seen when with his own finger (not served by Moses hand ) wrote His will . When Moses came down that law was broken when the sign of unbelief no faith was introduced in as the oral tradition of men.
A good example of unbelief no faith is shown in .Jerimiah 44:16-17. Keep in mind that they saw no evil in their unbelief .
As for the
word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
name of the Lord, we
will not hearken unto thee. But we
will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well,
and saw no evil.Jerimiah 44:16-17
That description pretty much defines when Moses came down and had to hide the glory of the lord from the unbelievers (no faith) and destroyed the tablets. Interestingly this time again by the finger of God, God hewn out the two new tablets and then moved Moses to write them down as the first prophet to record his words establishing as it is written the perfect law..