Moses: Deut 19:2-4 2And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Jesus: John 5: 39-40, 46-47 39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. 46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Jesus: Luke 16: 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Jesus, regarding the Pharisees, the 30 AD experts on the Torah: Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
No worries, it wasn’t a “reliance”, it was something I am keenly interested in, that being how do people reconcile seemingly impossible positions.
The supposedly impossible position in this case was reconciliation of the Flood story with the current scientific theories of geology.
I’m agnostic to this particular subject; it doesn’t really matter to me whether or not the current scientific theories are correct or the Flood story is 100% literally accurate. I have to work, pay bills, love my family, and do what my God tells me is right. What Noah did or what some ape did thousands or millions of years ago doesn’t affect me except by example.