Originally Posted by kerry

I really don't understand why people on the conservative end of the religious spectrum get their shorts in a knot over the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch or other obscure arguments about who wrote what in the Bible. If it's a divinely inspired document it could have been written by Fred Flintstone without making any difference at all from a logical point of view. The issue is strictly traditional attribution of authorship which seems to prove that conservative religious believers are not really committed to the textual authority of the Scripture, but to conservative cultural and religious beliefs in general.

Look at Matt. He thinks the OT was written in Greek yet such a factual error has no effect on his ability to turn the text into a fetish.