Question From QUORA.com:
"How Did Moses Know God Created The Heaven
And The Earth Since He Was Not There
As Stated In Genesis Chapter 1?"
June 2024
The entire Book of Exodus is the story of Moses and his direct interactions with
God, beginning with the burning bush, through his direct encounters with God on
Mount Sinai, all the way to his death at the door of the promised land, where
God, Himself, buried Moses. No one but Jesus had such intimate encounters with
the Creator.
However, he had multiple encounters with God on Mount Sinai, the most well-known
of which resulted in the Ten Commandments. Actually, if you read the last part
of Chapter 19, God actually went down to the people in a cloud and spoke the
Ten Commandments directly to them, but His voice frightened them so much they
asked Moses to speak to God, then come tell them what God said, because they
were too afraid.
Moses, on at least two occasions, spent 40 days and nights on the mountain with
God. During all these encounters God Himself gave Moses not only what we now
call the Mosaic Laws, but all the other information that Moses then wrote, as
he was commanded to do.
So, to answer your question, Moses knew what had happened at Creation, because
he had direct encounters with God, who gave him that information. Additionally,
the veracity of Moses' contributions was acknowledged by none other that God
Himself in the form of Christ in the New Testament. In Luke 9, Moses himself
appeared before Jesus with Elijah at the transfiguration. Nowhere in the Bible
does anyone, especially Christ, refute the writings of Moses, but instead they
are referred to on numerous occasions by Christ Himself.
Moses wrote Exodus. He wrote Genesis from the history lesson given him by God
on Mount Sinai, and the only possible disputed part of Moses' writings is who
(likely his scribe) wrote the last part of Deuteronomy chapter 34 concerning the death of Moses,
and his burial by God Himself in a place no man knows.
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