Q&A — Why didn't God make the Bible's message so clear that everyone interprets it the same way?

Mike gives two responses: (1) It is dangerous to theorize how God 'could have done better.' (2) Jesus deliberately taught in parables 'so that seeing they will not see and hearing they will not understand' — implying God sometimes intends that people with wrong hearts not understand. For Catholics specifically, he thinks tradition and upbringing are the real drivers of belief, not honest wrestling with Scripture.