If these books were not really written by Moses, and not until many years after the nation of Israel was founded, these critics would be able to claim the inaccuracy of what was written, and thereby refute the authority of God's Word. But this is not true. Redaction criticism is the idea that the writers of the Gospels were nothing more than final compilers of oral traditions and not actually the direct writers of the Gospels themselves.
Kama vitabu hivi havikuandikwa kwa kweli na Musa, na sio mpaka miaka mingi baada ya taifa la Israeli lilianzishwa, wakosoaji hawa watakuwa na uwezo wa kudai kuwa kile kile kilichoandikwa kilikuwa na makosa, na hivyo kukanusha mamlaka ya neno la Mungu. Lakini hii si kweli. (Kwa mjadala wa hoja kwa uandishi wa Musa wa vitabu vya sheria, angalia makala yetu juu ya mzururo wa wa nakala na nadharia ya JEDP.) Upinzani pungufu ni wazo kwamba waandishi wa Injili hawakuwa watu wowote zaidi ya Waandishi wa simulizi za kijadi na si waandishi kweli wa moja kwa moja wa Injili yenyewe.