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Bible believers, why do you think Moses wrote Genesis?
This question is assuming the Bible is correct, and thus Paul wrote the pauline epistles, Jeremiah wrote Jeremiah etc. So this isn't a discussion about Jahwist, Elohist etc. Many books in the Bible, particularly the NT are anonymous works and were given authors based on random tradition, such as "mathew" writing "mathew" even though nowhere in the bible does it say so. This same thing applies to Genesis. Contrary to other books, such as leviticus, exodus etc, there is zero reason to believe that genesis was written by Moses. For one, it never says he did, nor is he even mentioned once, unlike the other early books, secondly, the entire bible consistently refers to moses as being the one that wrote the "Law" which includes books like leviticus, Deuteronomy, but not once does it mention that moses wrote Genesis, which has nothing to do with the giving of the Law. So what exactly is the reason that christians claim that moses wrote genesis? What is the logic/argument ?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
There is reason to believe that Moses collected the writings of others such as Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abraham, etc. and then he Moses) put them together into the Book of Genesis.
A lot of the reason for believing that Moses wrote Genesis has to do with the way that Christ quoted Moses so often.
Mat 8:4
And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."
Mat 19:7
They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
Mat 19:8
He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mat 23:1-2
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Mark 10:3
And He answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?"
Mark 12:26
But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob' ?
Luke 16:29
Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'
Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Luke 24:44
Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."
John 3:14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 5:45-46
Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you--Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me.
John 6:32
Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
John 7:19
Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"
- Anonymous10 years ago
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jesus is fake
HARRY POTTER WROTE THE BIBLE
HARRY POTTER IS GOD
GOD HARRY POTTER IS LORD...
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