p. 16 | How Moses Knew

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 11.

How Moses Knew.

How did Moses learn about the creation? There was no man living when the heavens and earth were created, so that he could not have learned the story from man. Those who assume that he compiled the narrative from various existing documents, do not help the matter at all, for no man who lived before Moses had any better chance to learn about creation than he had. Even Adam had no more personal knowledge of the facts of creation than Moses had; for creation was complete when Adam first saw the light. He saw nothing of the process himself. Then how did Moses know what to write? Did he imagine it?—Not at all; he wrote just what he knew, because the Lord told him. He who created the heavens and the earth, “made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel” (Ps. 103:7), for the Lord spoke to him mouth to mouth (Num. 12:8). This is the way the entire Bible was written, “for no prophecy ever came by the will of man; but men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Ghost.”