Did He leave the disciples in the dark??
The fact is if you desire a serious relationship with someone you have to get to know them intimately ... it is no different with our relationship with God...If we really want a relationship with our Father we need to be willing to take time and learn of Him ..that is only done through His word..
The unregenerate do not understand this..
1 Cor 2:12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, 13which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 14But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.…
But in the mean time, you consider yourself in the dark as you try to figure out what God’s Word means. How do you know when you figured correctly?