Are the stories of Moses true or fiction?

Question

your opinion

Answer 1

the moral of the story is true...

fictionized in time~!

Answer 2

Listen you probably seen movies, heard and read about Moses just like the rest of us. It's up to yourself to decide what is fact or fiction. Many people have there own personal skeptic opinion. Unless someone can physically show proof or actually if he did exist we will never know. As with the mention of the Ten Commandments where are they? They would be very priceless artifacts and should be on public display. Has anyone ever seen them ? No but we all live by and obey them. Where was Moses buried or his grave site. What you decide is true of fiction is a persons personal choice.

Answer 3

Fiction

Answer 4

Fiction

Answer 5

A bit of both.

I think the genealogies are correct as far as they go, and some of the things in the first five books of the Bible are true.

Other things are oral traditions that were passed down for hundreds, maybe even thousands, of years before they were written. They're true, to an extent, but only as far as people then could understand.

Genesis (or at least the first few chapters) reads like a story that would have been told around the fire.

Answer 6

Maybe a little of both. Remember - none of the bible was in written form until about 900 years after the events described. (Yes I know I'm revealing myself to be a "liberal" non-inerrancy type, but so be it - the scholarship is very good these days about what can be known etc...)

Some of the best scholarship right now seems to sugest that Moses is a composite character, created through generations of campfires and oral tradition. The name is definately egyptian, and there does appear to be at least two personalities that come and go through the narratives from event to event.

My opinion of Moses and the Bible in general, is that it is not in any literal sense the word of God, but a record of how people of faith in another era tried to make sense out their world as they understood it. In that light, we can glean wisdom and truth described without accepting the obviously absurd etc...

Anyway - put that in the 'for what it's worth' category. This may not be the est medium for this - so - good luck :-)

Answer 7

Fiction does not last. Soon forgotten!

The truth in the stories of Moses is yet fresh and remembered. Mankind cannot forget it!

Answer 8

In my opinion, the stories of Moses in the Torah are true because I believe the Scriptures are the word of God.

Answer 9

There was probably a patriarch with a name like Moses, and he probably was a religious fanatic, but all the supernatural events are fiction.

Answer 10

very true.
if there is a sea, and we all know that there is a sea , then sharing the sea in two and making a road for israel to get rid of the exploaitation of egiptions is very easy to do thing, for a God.

if my house is full of ants , then God could send all those frogs over the egiptians.it is very easy for him to do this.

and if we believe in Him, meaning, believing that God is right and good, etc, we could do even greater miracles then Jesus did, God said, by asking Him of course, not by ourselves, because we are not gods.so after you will become a believer, and you will be in need, you will see , that you will survive, and this will be a higher miracle then Moses did.