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'''Challenging the Source''' | '''Challenging the Source''' | ||
:Challenging book authors | :Challenging book authors | ||
::If Moses wrote | ::You have probably never heard the evidence that Genesis was written by eye witnesses. It is an old and subtle hostility to the word of God to say that Moses wrote it. If Moses wrote it, how can God expect us to believe it? How does this claim differ from that of others who claim to have heard from God? God does not expect us to blindly believe such things. He said we could know and then believe. <ref>{{bgw| Isa 43:10 }} Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.</ref> | ||
:Challenging dates of books | :Challenging dates of books | ||
:Challenging | ::Claims by scholars that books were written long after the recorded or traditional dating is designed to cast doubt in the same manner as the claim that Moses wrote Genesis. | ||
:Challenging preservation of the text | |||
::There are actually many important changes to the Hebrew text since the time of Jesus. Around | |||
'''Doubting the language''' | '''Doubting the language''' | ||
