Proof That the Bible Isn't the Word of God

[John V]

In Genesis 14:14 the author tells us that Lot was going to be rescued from a town by the name of Dan. This town is referred to in the book of Judges, where we get told in verses 18:27-29 that "the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire. And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it. And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first." This account is placed immediately after Samson's death in 1120 B.C. which makes it 331 years after Moses' death in 1451 B.C. therefore proving that Moses could not possibly have written Genesis. But the more obvious fatal fact here is that in Genesis it refers to the town as Dan and not Laish which undeniably means the author was writing sometime after the invasion by Dan's army.

That conclusion can be denied on several grounds, the simplest being that it was a different place which happened to be called Dan. Duh.