37 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. So what does it mean when John calls the Old Testament Scriptures a witness to Jesus? Considering he wrote these books thousands of years after the events, this bolsters the support for the veracity of Genesis. So a witness is ordinarily one who has seen something and can witness to what he has seen. As noted before, my position is that "law of Moses" is an appropriate designation for the Torah/Pentateuch despite sound evidence that Moses did not write all or even most of it (see here).This position is akin to the phrase "Psalm of David" (le-dawid) very . Because in them you come to know God for who he really is, and that means coming to know Jesus. 1.He Was Qualified. He knew that Genesis says Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day of creation. Following Eichhorn, other ideas were advanced in denial of the Mosaic authorship of the first five books on the Old Testament. Spinoza's arguments included these: 1), All people need to know where they came from, where their place in history is, or they will be very confused people. Galatians 5:3. There are passages in Genesis that Moses could not have written, because they describe events that happened after his death, known as postmosaica passages. ., Nehemiah 13:1On that day the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people . Ye build the tombs of the prophets, wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are children of them that killed the prophets. Matthew 16:21 indicates that Jesus knew . . Proving Moses Wrote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and However, that said, a number of passages in the Pentateuch mention that Moses wrote things down. Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular. Wellhausen put dates to the alleged four sources and none were earlier than around 900 BC.10 As noted Old Testament scholar, Gleason Archer remarks, "Although Wellhausen contributed no innovations to speak of, he restated the documentary theory with great skill and persuasiveness, supporting the JEDP sequence upon an evolutionary basis."11.
