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Moses wrote what, when, on what, with what.

I'm just guessing that the OT was compiled a whole lot later...Rather like the Jesus tales of the NT.

Prove me wrong.

"According to the majority viewpoint", Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch or Torah, which are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Didn't Trump say that?
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God Calls Moses
3 One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. 3 “This is strange,” he thought. “Why isn't the bush burning up? I will go closer and see.”
4 When the Lord saw that Moses was coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, “Moses! Moses!”
He answered, “Yes, here I am.”
5 God said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground. 6 I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
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God Calls Moses
3 One day while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the holy mountain. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. 3 “This is strange,” he thought. “Why isn't the bush burning up? I will go closer and see.”
4 When the Lord saw that Moses was coming closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, “Moses! Moses!”
He answered, “Yes, here I am.”
5 God said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground. 6 I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
What did Jesus say? That’s the topic.
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According to the majority viewpoint.

A majority of who.

And from where was their viewpoint acquired.


I think you will find, that the majority of people are prepared just to unquestioningly accept that the bible was compiled by someone or someone's.

I also expect that the majority of people wouldn't have a clue about who might have had a hand in the composition of the first five chapters.

I further expect that the majority of people although recognising the biblical name Moses, would probably not have a clue as to what he supposedly did, nor when he did it.

I even further expect, that most labelled but lapsed Christians know very little if anything al all, about the first five books of the old testament and Moses's purported hand in their composition.


I'm guessing that what you mean, is a majority of biased  theological nerds.
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I'm guessing that what you mean, is a majority of biased  theological nerds.
The majority of biblical scholars.
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The majority of biblical scholars.

That's what I said.

Who probably make up 0.0000001% of the population.


NB. (0.0000001% may or may not be an exaggeration).
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The majority of biblical scholars.

That's what I said.

Who probably make up 0.0000001% of the population.


NB. (0.0000001% may or may not be an exaggeration).
Hard to get majority recognition in any profession. But biblical scholars hold a majority viewpoint about the Bible.
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Like I suggested. 

Out of a very small clique of biblical scholars, perhaps a majority will hold similar views about Moses and his writing skills.

Though perhaps we should say chiselling skills.


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Like I suggested. 

Out of a very small clique of biblical scholars, perhaps a majority will hold similar views about Moses and his writing skills.

Though perhaps we should say chiselling skills.
It survived over 2 thousand years.
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It survived over 2 thousand years.

What? 

The nonevidence based collective assumption made by a few "biblical scholars", that a guy named Moses might have put chisel to stone.

Were they reincarnated Buddhists?
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It survived over 2 thousand years.

What? 

The nonevidence based collective assumption made by a few "biblical scholars", that a guy named Moses might have put chisel to stone.

Were they reincarnated Buddhists?
The biblical scholarly views survived over 2 thousand years.
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Written or chiselled.

But yep, sort of proves that there was other stuff, before they invented the OT, and later Christianity.


And scholars are as scholars want to do.


So FLRW is a scholar because he knows stuff, and can confirm a 5500 year old clay tablet.

And seemingly stuff occurred in Mesopotamia, long before Moses went hiking.


And presumably stuff happened 5500 years before that...So I am a scholar too.
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But yep, sort of proves that there was other stuff, before they invented the OT, and later Christianity.
You must mean Buddhism and Hinduism.
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Buddhists and Hindus.
Yep, them too.

But regionally I was referring to Mesopotamian peoples.

Though everywhere that people existed at any given time in the past, then said people would have been doing stuff.

Bit silly to think that people just stood around motionless for millennia, not thinking  or doing stuff.
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Buddhists and Hindus.
Yep, them too.

But regionally I was referring to Mesopotamian peoples.

Though everywhere that people existed at any given time in the past, then said people would have been doing stuff.

Bit silly to think that people just stood around motionless for millennia, not thinking  or doing stuff.
They were waiting for their alien gods to return.
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Maybe.
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Maybe.
That is why they accepted Jesus when he said.
John 8:23 
Jesus answered, "You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.



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Who said?

Jesus or John.

Why would Jesus answer himself?

Unless he was mad, of course.

Ahhhh...Perhaps you just hit the nail on the head.