Book of Moses by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · May 13, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 19.

Book of Moses

By Editor

No. 566. Book of Moses.

How do you answer the argument so often brought forward that the Book of Moses, etc., was written thousands of years after the death of Moses, and that Chinese history is so much older than the Bible? MRS. A. H. MCA.

As a general thing, such statements are not worthy of answer, and they are put forth by those who know nothing of the subject by personal investigation, for the sole purpose of caviling. To the honest inquirer we would show that subsequent books of the Bible refer to the law of Moses as a book written before their time (Joshua 8:31; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 22:8, 13; 23:25; 2 Chron. 34:14; Dan. 9:11; Ezra 6:18, etc.); that the New Testament confirms this (Luke 24:44; Heb. 10:28, etc.). The brick records of Assyria, Babylonia, and other oriental people confirm the earlier writings of the Bible, as does also Josephus. As for "Chinese history," while doubtless ancient, it is exceedingly uncertain.