Why do we believe the Torah was given by G-d?
by Mrs. Sarah Levi
We know that the Torah was given by G-d via historical fact, just like we know that George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Charlemagne, or Plato lived because of the existing historical evidence. The fact is that the Torah was given in front of approximately 3,000,000 eyewitnesses who transmitted their experience to their children and so on down through the ages.
There is additional reasoning behind our belief in the Torah's divinity. Taking as a given that there is a reasoning Creator Who is the architect of the world (see How do we know G-d created the world?), would it not seem imperative that this Creator would reveal His will to humanity, the single greatest component of creation? Once we believe that the Torah is divine, we must also understand that the entire Torah is divine. This means that picking and choosing which parts of the Torah to follow is unreasonable, and that mankind has not the moral authority to negate even one letter of the Torah.
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2007-01-22
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