FloydLee
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| Quote | | Jesus does not say that Moses is the author of Genesis. |
On the contrary, that was Jesus's own position. No escape on that one folks.
Jesus said the following:
| Quote | | "For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?" (John 5:46-47). |
Where did Moses write about Jesus, pray tell? Right here when he wrote this Genesis Messianic prophecy:
| Quote | And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed;
He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel." (3:15) |
Remember, Jesus wasn't a skeptic, and Jesus wasn't an evolutionist. HE, like all the observant Jews of his day fully accepted Mosaic authorship of Genesis, and accepted it as actual historical narrative, just like the writers of the Old Testament and the New Testament did.
In fact, both Jesus and his opponents (the Pharisees) fully accepted that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, including Genesis. Check out Matt. 19:
| Quote | 2 The Pharisees came and asked (Jesus), “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” testing Him.
3 And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
4 They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.”
5 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6 "But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’ (Gen. 1:27; Gen. 5:2)
7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
8 and the two shall become one flesh’; ( Genesis 2:24) so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” |
Jesus's response directly blocked the Pharisee attack, and there was nowhere to go for the Pharisees, they could not come up with a prior Mosaic quotation than the Genesis creation itself.
Nor did the Pharisees come up with "Hey Jesus! That's metaphor! That's allegory! That's non-historical! That's not reality! St. Darwin sez so!"
No, they (like Jesus) fully accepted that Moses wrote Genesis and Moses said it as actual history.
(And please notice: Jesus directly quoted the Genesis text itself as actual literal history.)
Finally, also note that Moses wrote again of Jesus in the fifth of the Five Books (the Five Books are called the Pentateuch, which includes Genesis). Here's two more Messianic prophecies:
| Quote | 15 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.
18 'I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.
---Deut. 18 |
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So, bottom line is.....Moses wrote Genesis, according to Jesus (and the writers of the Old and New Testaments, and the Pharisees, and the Israelites, etc.)
Of course, if you don't believe Jesus Christ, well...........
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