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Believing Moses, Believing Jesus

by ERICHOLTER on JANUARY 27, 2012

This week at our Wednesday evening Bible study we discussed how we need to believe in all of the Bible, all of its words and details, its theology and its history. We addressed some of the counter claims of modern scholarship that treat the Bible as a merely man made and highly exaggerated book. For example, in the 19th century scholars, based solely on their prior commitment to the idea that miracles cannot happen in a closed, natural universe, came up with the theory that the Pentateuch could not have been written by Moses. Rather, they concluded, it had been compiled much later by several sets of people with various oral and written traditions as sources. Mind you there is not a shred of physical evidence or manuscript evidence that such a process ever happened. While most scholars today have moved beyond this particular theory many still deny that Moses actually wrote the first five books of the Bible. Or for other reasons they do not believe that Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy are historically accurate, dependable and truthful.

Despite the trends of modern scholarship, there is no reason aside from a prior commitment to assumptions that things like the parting of the Red Sea just can’t happen to deny the truthfulness of the Pentateuch or the rest of the Bible.

And there is a huge reason to believe it–consider Jesus’ warning from John 5:46-47, “For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

We cannot pick and choose which parts of the Bible we want to believe. If we reject one part, we reject all of it. If we disbelieve Moses, we disbelieve Jesus. And if we reject Jesus’ words we cannot be saved.

Hold firmly to the Word, “for it is no empty word for you, but your very life,” Deu. 32:47.

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