Lay it to HeartJosephus Makes God Out to be a Liar Josephus makes God and Moses out to be liars. It is almost unbelievable that any educated scholar would use Josephus to try and bolster the Bible when Josephus displays such vile contempt for God. We can only assume that they really have not studied what they are talking about.Antiquities 4.8.48 talks about Moses death. The end of the account says, "All those who accompanied him were the senate, and Eleazar the high priest, and Joshua their commander. Now as soon as they were come to the mountain called Abarim, (which is a very high mountain, situated over against Jericho, and one that affords, to such as are upon it, a prospect of the greatest part of the excellent land of Canaan,) he dismissed the senate; and as he was going to embrace Eleazar and Joshua, and was still discoursing with them, a cloud stood over him on the sudden, and he disappeared in a certain valley, although he wrote in the holy books that he died, which was done out of fear, lest they should venture to say that, because of his extraordinary virtue, he went to God." This Account Makes God Out to be a Liar Josephus writes that Moses did not die but vanished. Deuteronomy 34:5 says Moses died. Deuteronomy 34:6 says God buried Moses. Josephus writes that Moses didn't die but instead wrote in the holy books that he died. These holy books are in the Bible. That would mean Moses wrote a lie into the Bible. That would mean the Bible is wrong. Since the Bible is God's word, that would make God out to be a liar. God has preserved that word. God is the ultimate author of the Bible. He does not lie. Josephus, however, lies even about the nature of God.
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