Genesis’ Young Earth, Stars, Michael J. Fox and the DeLorean…“All Aboard!”, page 1

Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by OldThinker

OT genisis is written for preschoolers.

I dunno?????

Have you seen the way the Jews have copied it? Pretty reliable, to me....

The Pentateuch records the creation of the earth, the flood, God’s covenant with the Patriarchs, the Exodus, the history of Israel, and the laws revealed to Moses. As a result, its authorship and historical reliability have been and will continue to be subjected to much scholarly attention.

Can we proof Moses wrote the Pentateuch? The author of the Pentateuch is not unambiguously identified. Tradition undisputedly has suggested Moses as the writer around 1400 BC. Obvious puzzling passages are found, such as in Genesis 12:6 “at the time the Canaanites were in the land” – how could Moses know? Or even more challenging, how could Moses record his own death in Deuteronomy 3:4-5? On the other hand, Moses is clearly the leading character from Exodus on.

In the early twentieth century scholars developed the Documentary Hypothesis.[12] This theory claims the Pentateuch was written by four different individuals, each from a different period of Israel’s history, long after Moses. The authors are identified by the different names used for God. This theory postulates the oldest document was produced in the ninth or tenth century BC and the latest one during the Babylonian exile as late as the fourth century BC.

A related extreme theory even suggests final authorship is to be assigned to Ezra in the middle of the fifth century BC. This theory claims that many accounts (such as that of the flood) were copied and edited from similar stories from the Babylonian history and culture.

But others have produced strong evidence for Moses as the author. As Gleason L Archer states:[13]

“When all the data of the Pentateuchal text have been carefully considered, and all the evidence, both internal and external, has been fairly weighed, the impression is all but irresistible that Mosaic authorship is the one theory which best accords with the surviving historical data. For the purposes of a convenient survey, and without elaborate demonstration or illustration at this point, we shall list the various areas of evidence which point to this conclusion.”

A summary of Archer’s evidences that proof that Moses wrote the Pentateuch includes:

The Pentateuch itself infers authorship by Moses (Exodus 7:14, Exodus 24:4, Exodus 34:27. Deuteronomy 31:9).
The unity of the first five books suggests a single author.
Tradition (including references in the New and Old Testament) uniquely identifies Moses as the author.
Moses is the main character.
The abundance of irrelevant details points to eyewitness testimony. A wealth of especially irrelevant detail in ancient writings and testimonies is generally accepted as strong evidence of honest and reliable eye-witness testimony.
The author is well acquainted with Egypt and the desert, but not with Palestine/Canaan.
Many 2nd millennium BC customs (like the blessings of the first born son) are correctly described.
A relatively large percentage of Egyptian words is used.
Moses had the qualifications (education, background, experience) to be the author.
Archaeological and historical discoveries[14] confirm details, such as the existence of the Hittites, Ur, Bethel, Shechem, Sodom and Gomorrah, the use of camels, price of a slave in the days of Joseph, Moses as an Egyptian name, etc.
The discovery of the Silver Scrolls in 1979, dated earlier than 586 BC (more about this archaeological discovery later[15]) and containing a text from the book of Numbers, strikes a major blow to the late date argument for the Pentateuch, as this particular section was supposed not to have been written before 500 BC.

link: www.windmillministries.org...

Are you ready to defend the rebuttal of Moses as a person? He was a fable?????

Wertdagf, I know Charlton Heston will be disappointed....

Nah, really, what is your beef???

OT