Following on the heels of my last post concerning “higher literary criticism” and when the book of Deuteronomy was REALLY written, there are a a couple of other points I need to make clear.
You should know that according to the original Messianic faith (what some would term “earliest Christianity”), the idea that the Torah was written by anybody but Moses simply doesn’t exist!
And even in Judaism, it is considered common knowledge that the Torah was written by Moses.
There is no serious dissension against this foundational concept.
Even the ancient historians Philo and Josephus are adamant that it was Moses who penned the Torah.
It was only about 2000 years later in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe during an era known as the Enlightenment that the question of whether Moses actually authored the Torah or not arose.
This so called “Enlightenment” gave birth to two things that have seriously undermined our faith.
FIRST, it gave birth to a way of thinking known as “Secular Humanism“.
According to Wikipedia, “secular humanism is a philosophy or life stance that embraces human reason, ethics and philosophical naturalism while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, pseudoscience and superstition as the basis of morality and decision making”.
Based on this definition alone, it is easy to see why this philosophy would be quite hostile towards the Torah.
SECOND, the Enlightenment also gave birth to a slew of rabid anti-Semitic scholars and thinkers who detested religion and labeled Bible believers as mentally weak, uneducated, and as part of the unintelligent masses.
This condescending cynicism towards the Bible and religious faith persists today in practically all of our secular institutions of education.
Obviously, somebody like me who is a passionate believer in God’s Torah despises those who would take such a scornful and doubting attitude towards Scripture.
A good way to show just how ridiculous these academic types with their “higher literary criticism” theories are is to just ask…
…out of the following two options, which one makes more sense?
OPTION ONE…that historians who were present or were at the least 2000 years closer to the actual Scriptural events as they unfolded and reported what they eye-witnessed know better about who authored Torah.
Or…
OPTION TWO…that philosophers and academics who a good 3000 years after the fact theorized about what happened…including going against what the historians who were present when the events in question actually took place know better about who authored Torah.
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