Inerrant Lie #23

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

The Jews challenged the authority of Jesus of Nazareth with a lie they were taught by Moses to believe, saying to Jesus: "What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, [Moses] gave them bread from heaven to eat [John 6:30 & 31]."

The scripture cited (as “written,” above) by the Jews, in their challenge to Jesus' authority, was penned by Moses, and is found in Exodus. "And Moses said… Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt [Exodus 16:32]." Jesus' response to the Jewry’s challenge is, "Moses gave you not that bread from heaven... [John 6:32e]." Clearly someone lied, somewhere.

Either Moses lied when he said, “I have fed you in the wilderness,” or Jesus of Nazareth lied, when he said, “Moses gave you not that bread from heaven,” or there simply was no manna, and Exodus 16:32 is legendary fable.

It seems far more likely there was no “bread from heaven”-- no sojourn in the wilderness– than to suppose manna from heaven could be the product of Moses' beneficence. Even if Jesus of Nazareth was delusional in believing the exodus narrative: Moses certainly was deluded when he claimed proprietorship of “bread from heaven.”