Sunday, December 03, 2006

Moses and the Torah

It is obvious that Moses probably didn't write the Torah, but he did in fact bring it orally to his people. Oral story telling in the Jewish culture was very maticulous, which means that when literate Israelites wrote down the oral stories later, they would have been the same as they were at the time of Moses.
Along with this, the belief of who gave the Law to the peopel of Israel did not change around the time of Christ. It simply just carried on from what it was from earlier. I have to say that it is a challenge to what I know to say that Moses did not give the descendents of Abraham the Torah. I have many educated teachers who have spent many more hours researching such topics as the Torah, than any of my academic instructors ever have. One of my favorite people to learn from is a man by the name of Fred Nelson, from Billings who has 20,000 plus hours in the study of the Bible. I believe his opinion over even most professional opinions with that kind of resume. I have not heard all of his opinion on the Torah, but I meet with one of his prodoge quite often.
I have heard of so many debates with academic persons, but how about one of those academic people has debate with someone with an education like Fred. I seriously challenge anyone to ask some well thought out questions with pastors and well educated Christ followers before giving up on the New Testament because if one only argues with a secular instructor at MSU, you will no doubt get a biased opinion.

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