If I was an omnipotent, omniscient god who wanted to provide manatory guidelines for the billions of people on earth, current and future, I would not use humans as a medium at all.

Instead I would:

1. provide the information in the bible myself, just poofing it into existence (the claim is that this was done with the ten commandments; why not the whole bible?)

2. write it in a clear, detailed form with no parables, symbolism, inaccuracies, errors, or ambiguities.

3. write it in all possible present and future languages simultaneously, to eliminate the possibility of translation errors

4. write it on an indestructible material such as adamantium, so that the copies would never deteriorate throughout the existence of the human race

5. place copies in all population centers, repeating this process over and over as new population centers are built throughout history; make it available to every person on earth who asks for it

This would be trivial for someone who could poof a entire universe into existence. Or even someone who could temporarily halt the rotation of the earth without catastrophic side effects.

Instead we have a haphazard approach where

1. a bunch of ordinary guys write things in an ancient language, with absoutely no indication that they were "inspired" in any way

2. these writings get copied and translated countless times, introducing cumulative errors

3. another bunch of ordinary guys arbitrarily decides which of the many writings are "true" and "inspired" and which are not and puts the inspired ones in a book; hopefully the compilers are also "inspired", so that the inspired writings don't wind up in the trash and uninspired junk gets included

4. at the same time, rival groups select different sets of writings and each creates another book

Perhaps if god had done it my way instead of farting around there wouldn't be literally thousands of different versions of christianity, and the other religions wouldn't exist at all. Thousands of years of strife and bloodshed, which is still continuing unabated today, would never have happened.

Instead of all that writing, why didn't God just Poof us out of existence, or make it so that we don't need laws? That its built into our brains already that we do it automatically?

Religion says:

Of course God could've done that, but God didn't do that, so deal with it.

Other Religious folk might say:

God wanted balance, created Good and Bad. Consider this a Test.

Another good question would be why did god only make his revelation to people in one small pocket of the world? Why not make bibles in other countries, or even send jesuses to other places?

Because god never meant to talk to anybody besides the jews. Only jews go to heaven. That's just the way it is.

Christians need to answer these questions with a completely logical, rational, reasonable answer by the way. Don't feel you can ad-hoc your way by and say that because this is the way it is, it must make perfect sense. Really, I get very tired of people who just assume their religion is right and then explain away all the irrational fallacies by saying that that's just the way it is because God exists.

Unless there are reasons for this, God is being unreasonable. If he doesn't give us the capacity to understand the reasons, he is expecting us to go against our reasoning minds to follow what he says. Either way, not a good picture.

Voltaire has already answered this for us:

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.