Hebrews 7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.

There is nothing in all of scriptures to support this assertion. Neither is there anything in scripture to controvert this assertion. So how is it that the writer of Hebrews can say with any confidence that this is the truth?

Moses wrote the first five books of the bible, the Pentateuch. He penned these words during the forty year march from Egypt to the Promised Land. He never got to enter in but he did get to see it from afar.

I can see a historical significance in Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Numbers. People who lived those experiences with them had every right to contradict those written words, but there is no record that anyone denied there authenticity. No hint in the next books of the bible, penned by different authors that those first five book held any error.

That leaves us with the issue of Genesis which was penned purely by divine inspiration because no one living during those times was still alive to bear witness. The people saw with their own eyes this mystical and majestic relationship that Moses had with God. There was no reason to doubt that the words penned by Moses were anything but what God told him directly to write.

Here in Genesis we find the first traces of this King of Salem, this Melchizedek. Nothing prior to this contact with Abraham as related to Moses by God was ever noted. Nothing after Moses was ever written by any author which exposed the life and death of Melchizedek. Not until the writer of Hebrews.

How did the writer of Hebrews know? For that matter, what do you know of any certainty about anything written so long ago?