What made the Gospel writers wrap the moses story around jesus of nazareth?

The comparison is the Satan knew what God said in the Garden of Eden...

Genesis 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."

...and so the Devil has been trying to wipe out the line of Adam through Abraham, Isaac, and Israel ever since in the vain hope that he might destroy the promised Savior or Messiah.

The Bible teaches that Satan and his horde of demonic spirits are working in the background influencing the unsaved to do his will instead of the Lord's will.

Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

Satan moved Pharaoh to try to kill the Jews and Herod to try to kill the Lord Jesus and Hitler to try and wipe out the Jews and many other people down through the centuries.

Your theory is scrued. The word 'christians' came about because of the 'christ' Jesus and his crusafiction After Jesus died. The Jews had to find Jesus before becoming Christians but What it sounds like ur saying is that some Jews First became x-Jews then Christians befor they even found a Messih. If you knew anything about Christianity you would know this to be immposible. As for your question, they didn't wrap the Moses story aroud Jesus the two storys are only alike in the way that the rulers deffended their possitions as kings. By killing the thret. That's All it was, ur not going to prove the Bible wrong off of that or anything of that manor.

I agree with Rico, it's pretty moot. Either the divine stuff attributed to him is true, or it's not. The reason the Gospel authors (Luke in particular, who goes out of his way to say his account is a well-researched one) give so many details is to historicize their narratives, to firmly embed Jesus in a specific time and place. Even if you fully believe that no Jesus ever existed, that he's a complete invention, that doesn't insure that differing writers separated in time and space would necessarily agree with each other, especially if you see the Gospels as being a story that "grows with the telling": each narrative adding on new layers to the characterization of Jesus that would be consistent with that author's goals and the given understanding of the nature of Jesus at the time he wrote. Personally, while I'm sympathetic to the scholarly versions of the "Jesus Myth Theory" put out by academics like Richard Carrier, (not to be confused with that pile of crap "Zeitgeist", which got a lot of press but most of the details abominably wrong), I have no problem believing that at the germ of the Jesus idea there was some figure who was later used as a model for the emergent Christian movement. The NT depiction of that figure could be 100% fabricated, but that doesn't mean he didn't exist in fact; that is how legends are born, the heaping on of more and more anecdotal tales and supernatural attributes over time.

And you just seen the similarities?

The same themes go over and over again in the Bible, God judges and God delivers His righteous. Soddom and Gomorrah, The flood, Revelations. There are more.

He is very consistent. So where is the problem?

Have you ever asked yourself, if the Bible was made up, and that since it was all written within about 60 years of His death and resurrection. Where were all the people of His hometown who would claim all this didn't happen? I mean healing the sick, feeding 5000, water into wine, raising the dead, sounds like a pretty big deal. You would think if it didn't happen, someone would say so.

And even bigger than that, is, you have 12 Apostles who claim to be with Jesus, and they go throughout the world and preach. All but one is martyred. (John, who survived the attempt at his life). All of them die horrible deaths but, none of them say what they preach is a lie.

You would think of 12 people who are told tell the truth or you would die, at least one or more would change their story. Why would someone throw their life away for a lie?

I can understand if they became rich, or powerful, or maybe famous. But, none of them did that. Instead they intentionally turned their backs on all that and went to alien lands to preach about a man who died for people's sins. And knowing that they may be killed for it, they did it anyways.

why?

Have you ever considered that?

You missed the point of "who" wrote the Bible.

Certain men wrote the words out, but the Author was God. How do you think that many languages, dozens of cultures and hundreds of stories can all come to a common theme, a common thread of purpose?

Moses and the bronze snake - Jesus at the Cross?

The prophesy of the OT all point to Jesus Christ. The point that God is making here is to bring reconciliation to the human race through Christ and to reestablish His kingdom here on Earth.

The NT is a continuation of the OT. We have the beginning and we have the end. We know the whole story. We are ALL part of the story for we have the choice to where we will end up.

Do you want to face God as Judge or as Savior?

The story does not have to be literal in it's translation. The story of the Bible is to bring people to believe what God says is Truth! Ask God for revelation and He will give it.

Not quite accurate...

Pharoah ordered the Egyptian midwives to kill off every boy but save every girl because the Hebrews [ Jews ] in Egypt had grown to too large a number and pharoah was scared that if they combined forces with an outside country, then Egypt could be overrun.

Its all in Exodus chapter 1.

The Torah and Prophecies (the "Old Testament" ) predate Jesus, and that is historical fact widely accepted by all Christian, Jewsish and Secular scholars. . The account of Moses wasn't wrapped around Jesus. Everybody that agrees with you here are wholly ignorant of basic world history.

Also, the Samaritans (who split from today's Jews about 500BC) of whom there are still some left today, have exactly the same account of Moses.

Who is restricted to literal meanings? You are correct though, about recognizing the similarities. The events at the time of Moses were indeed a foreshadowing of the coming Messiah. The lamb, specifically one without any faults, was slaughtered as a symbol of sacrifice for the deliverance of the Hebrew slaves from Egypt. Jesus (who was indeed known as the lamb!), who had no sin, was crucified on the eve of Passover.

And, indeed Moses was spared the mass murder of infant boys by being hidden in the Nile in Egypt. Jesus too, was spared the mass murder of infant boys, and he was also taken to hide in Egypt. Moses saved the Israelites from bondage of physical slavery.Jesus saves everybody that chooses to believe in him, from the bondage of being the slaves of sin. I could go on and on..for instance there's the part of the blood on the doors, vs the blood of Jesus.

Since it is historical fact that the account of Moses was pinned down to writing centuries before Jesus (the oldest such manuscripts that PREDATE Jesus are in existence today). Since that is fact, the cunning accuracy of the foreshadowing is something for non Christians to think about.

They're the stories about the birth of a new astrological age... which each last around 2,160 years. Moses represents the Age of Aries the Ram, which is why the jews still blow the rams horn and Moses is often depicted with rams horns atop his head, and Jesus represents the age of Pisces the two fish, the fisher of men born of the Vesica Piscis who fed everyone with two fish.

The myths in the bible are heavily based around astrology.

The Holy Spirit

Compare Horus and Jesus. There are remarkable similarities. Virgin births seem to be a very popular theme.....