Now.... how many of the Jewish leaders considered themselves to be the founders of the Jewish 'faith'?
Did they all point the children of Israel , to follow God and His commandments/laws/precepts and all??
Moses: what did he 'found' ??
the secular world 'credits' Moses as the founder of the 10 commandments!
It would be far to speculative on their part to sugest that Moses actually God the commands from God himself, yet Moses asked God to give him proof, so that at the least, the children of Israel {'Gods people'} would 'believe him'!
Did every one believe Moses was sent by God, not to found the Jewish faith, but to lead the children. and even more, that Moses was to lead them from that bondage of Egypt, into the 'promised land'!!
Yes, that is the truth, yet, the majority of this world will outright
disbelieve that analysis, and will furthermore seek to prove that Moses was the real founder of the truth of God {as it was known to the children of Israel,as demonstrated in the context of the Hebrew scriptures, also known as the law and commandments of God, yet David discribed it as the truth of God, even in his mind, it was so}
Yet, Moses had flaws, and because of them, God changed his mind, and appointed Joshua(as a type of Christ), to be the new leader, that would bring them into the promised land!
Moses life was well documented, even though we do not know all the details, God did not want his people to 'mistakenly' worship their leaders , as though they were their 'saviour', but to recognize that theyare but dust, and are flawed to sin, at best, and need God ---in order to be restored to a full understanding of the purpose for which they are/were created!
Before we discuss that issue further, we need to accept that
at best, we human beings are all flawed, except for the Messiah,whom God sent to fully demostrate his purpose for creating and dealing with his creation.
Further more ....no one, that has ever been led of God to prophesy and lead his people have ever taken upon themselves the additional role as a 'founder' period.
But then look at the flawed leaders?
? Were they pointing to
their peculiar revelation, OR were they pointing the Hebrew to GOD?
?
That is easy to understand, yet in their day, it was not so, ....yet God told his people how to recognize a false prophet amoung them, and as soon as they are found out, cast them out as false prophets, as they spoke not the truth....
Does this sound familiar to the way God continues to deal with his people???
I think so!!!