The simple answer is Moses. He wrote the entire Torah (the Law), also called the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy). The Lord Jesus described the Torah as “the Book of Moses” (Mark 12:26) and the apostle Paul said, “Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law” (Rom. 10:5) and then quotes from Leviticus 18:5. Some have objected that these references only refer to Moses as Lawgiver of the Sinai covenant and not as the author of Genesis. However, in John 7:22, the Lord Jesus stated that Moses had given the Jewish people circumcision, referring to Genesis 17:9–14. Further, Paul wrote in Romans 3:31–4:5 that justification by faith was taught in the Law and then quoted Genesis 15:6 as support. The point is that both the Lord Jesus and Paul said that Moses wrote the Torah and they included Genesis as a part of it.
This question is based on a common misinterpretation of Genesis 6:1–4. The text says, “[T]he sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful; and they married any of them they chose” (Gen. 6:2). These unions produced the “Nephilim,” a supposed race of evil giants that corrupted the earth (Gen. 6:4).
We have all probably experienced periods of not being “heard” in our relationships with family, friends, or even co-workers. But there are also times when we need to take more time to listen.
Everywhere I go, including church, I see more and more people dressing in ways that are disrespectful and distracting. And no one seems to be talking about it. Are our bodies not part of what we offer to God? Isn’t modesty a biblical principle?
Rosalie de Rosset
The Church
The statement that Jesus is “fully man and fully God” arose in the early church. It was based on the comprehensive reading of Scripture regarding Jesus’ natures and person. We know that Mary’s firstborn son “grew and became strong, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him” (Luke 2:40). Like other humans, He hungered (Matt. 4:2), thirsted (John 19:28), tired (John 4:6), suffered (1 Peter 3:18), and died (Mark 15:37).
It’s clear in Scripture that, if we believe that the Lord Jesus died as our substitutionary sacrifice and that He was raised from the dead, all of our sins—past, present, and future—are forgiven (1 Cor. 15:1–8). Romans 8:1 says: “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Trust in the Lord Jesus establishes for us a forever-forgiven relationship with God.
Some Jewish people do believe in Jesus. In fact, Paul uses this as a proof that God hasn’t rejected the Jewish people (Rom. 11:1). He goes on to say that there will always be a remnant of Jewish people who will believe because they are chosen by grace (Rom. 11:5).
Some think the word “first” (Greek proton) should be taken sequentially, meaning the gospel was proclaimed first to the Jewish people and now it is for the “Greek” or the Gentiles. This is unlikely because the verb that governs the whole verse (“it is the power of God for salvation”) is a present tense. If the gospel is still the power of God for salvation and still for everyone who believes, it is still “first to the Jew.”