Who wrote the story of creation in the book of Genesis?

Answer 1

I didn't have a clue, so I came in to find out.

Now, the question is, Why Moses????

Adam would have made more sense, since he was part of it, right????

Answer 2

Moses was the writer of the first five books, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus. Numbers and Deuteronomy, also known as the Pentateuch or the Torah.

Answer 3

We don't know who wrote Genesis. According to theologian Karen Armstrong some bible scholars believe that Genesis was probably assembled from the work of two or three different writers. This theory is based on the certain inconsistencies of style and content.

One interesting quirk in Genesis is that the first woman was created on two separate occasions:

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
--Genesis 1:27

"Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man."
--Genesis 2:22

Answer 4

Moses is considered the writer , but he only wrote what God commanded him to, or inspired him to write, but Joshua obviously finished the books to write of the death of Moses, or as the New Testament teaches, the disappearance of Moses.Jude 1:9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Also as said in Amplified Bible;Jude 1:9 But when [even] the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, judicially argued (disputed) about the body of Moses, he dared not [presume to] bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, The Lord rebuke you!
You see the Devil never did get the body of Moses in Hell because angels carried him away to a secret place?Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knows of his sepulchre unto this day.

Answer 5

Moses. He wrote the first 5 books of the Bible.

Answer 6

The one in chapter 2, with Adam and Eve, was written by the people we call the "Elhoists", because they called God "Elohim" and could imagine him as someone who could walk in the garden "at the breezy time of the day". The story in Genesis 1, with the sun and moon, sky and sea, water and land, was written by the priests.

Answer 7

Jesus said Moses wrote Genesis, so I won't argue with Him.

Answer 8

Moses

Answer 9

Moses

Answer 10

The same people who wrote the rest of the Bible.

Some very intelligent men (by those days' standards) who desired to manipulate others for their own benefit.

Worked pretty good, huh?

Answer 11

Tradition has it that the Book of Genesis was written by the Prophet Moses 1,300 years before Christ. It was the first of the five books he compiled. The Mosaic books had no specific names in Hebrew; as the time passed, the Jews came to calling each book by its initial words: the Hebrew title of the book of Genesis is Bereshit, which means "In the beginning," because these words open the narrative of the Creation of the World. The modern names of the books of Moses are taken from the Septuagint ("the work of seventy interpreters"), the Greek translation of the Bible made in the 3rd century BC. These five Mosaic books are also called the Pentateuch in the Bible science.

The tradition believes that Moses was the writer of the first five books of the Bible, but it does not claim that he wrote each word in these books. They include some additions that were obviously made after his death, e.g. the story of Moses’ death, explanations of geographical names and names of peoples that were unknown to the later generations, and other such comments. The use of ancient genealogies, chronicles and brief descriptions of the past events does not contradict to the concept of Mosaic authorship. It is known that letters first appeared by only 1,200 years before Moses in Mesopotamia, where Abraham came from. Abraham could have passed to his descendants some notes, which later became the basis of the Book of Genesis. We can suggest that such written notes existed because Moses’ disciple Joshua had mentioned a Book of Jasher (the Upright) that later disappeared. Moses was writing his books during the Jews’ forty-year-long wandering in the desert. The volume of these books is almost equal to that of the New Testament. It is natural to reckon that Moses had secretaries, who probably recorded the events involving Moses himself, as these facts were described in the third person. By no means could the scribes, assisting Moses to compile the Pentateuch, have any established style of writing, which is characteristic of professional writers only. Therefore, there is nothing surprising when modern Bible researchers find that portions of Mosaic writing are written in different styles. However, we also have to admit that the stylistic differences depend on the content of components of the Pentateuch, rather than on the assistance of scribes. By its nature, the legislative language varies from narrative, economic and construction lingo is different from contemplative; yet the Prophet Moses had to cover a wide range of topics. Certain parts of the Pentateuch, especially those containing Divine revelation, were written by Moses personally, and this was many times mentioned in the Mosaic books.

The Prophet Moses was an outstanding person for all times. Being a prophet, he received a distinguished intimacy with God, and the Bible witnessed that "The LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend" (Exodus 33:11). Being a writer and legislator, he had excellent education for his time, because he had been brought up at Pharaoh’s court as a son of Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopted him in infancy.

Moses included in the Book of Genesis the story of Creation of the world and man by God, narration about the life of our forefathers in Eden and about the Fall, about lives of the antediluvian patriarchs, Noah, the universal Flood and the post-Flood patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In line with the lives of patriarchs, Moses recorded in his book a lot of information on ancient kingdoms and dispersion of peoples. The Book of Genesis is closed with the story of Joseph and the relocation of Jacob’s family to Egypt. The content of the book of Genesis follows a schema that allows dividing it into five parts, built on the same principle. Each part has a formalized introduction and a special heading, followed by a brief summary of events, described in the preceding part.

The whole Book of Genesis lets you feel consistency and integrity of composition, thus giving evidence for the existence of an editor. The author of Genesis provided much precious historical information about events, which had not been mentioned elsewhere, or had been recorded in a mythologically distorted manner. However, it was not the goal of the Prophet Moses to encompass the entire complexity of history in this book. Out of all information available to him, Moses selected only what was related to the religious life of people. That is why his book should not be treated as mere history, but as a source of spiritual wisdom, a book inspired by God Himself.