“I believe Jesus used lots of tools in his teachings.”
Well, He quoted Scripture as authoritative (nothing else). He reasoned. He argued. He demonstrated. He raised people from the dead, healed lepers, made the blind see and the deaf hear. He drove moneychangers out of the temple with a whip. He spoke in parables. He confronted. I guess those are all tools in a manner of speaking.
The first books of the Bible, Genesis through Deuteronomy, were written down during Moses’ time, by Moses. The Psalms were written by King David. Proverbs’ author was King Solomon. Every book of the Bible has a fairly easily discernible author, and historians, even non-Christian ones, generally accept the authorship and the approximate dates of writing.
Nothing was written hundreds of years after Christ. The first four gospels are eyewitness accounts by four of his disciples (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) and were all written before they died (obviously).
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Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.
34:6 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
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So, Genesis through Deuteronomy, were written down [...] by Moses!
Meaning that Moses wrote about his own death and burial, and the mourning which continued for 30 days after his funeral. How edifying!
Regards,