The Unmistakeable Impress of Divine Inspiration

[TBC: Even skeptics know that most cultures on this planet have stories of Creation, the Fall of Man, the flood, and other narratives found in the Bible.]

In response: “Merrill Unger wrote in 1954, “Although these similarities are genuine, they are commonly exaggerated, and erroneous conclusions are frequently drawn from them.” He went on, “The Genesis account is not only the purest, but everywhere bears the unmistakable impress of divine inspiration when compared with the extravagances and corruptions of other accounts. The Biblical narrative, we may conclude, represents the original form these traditions must have assumed.”

Unger also noted “numerous similarities” between the Babylonian flood story and Genesis, but the differences are “much more significant and fundamental.... Even where the parallels are most striking, the radical underlying differences of theology, morality, and philosophy of religion remain the salient features beside which the resemblances...are quite superficial.” It was Unger’s assessment that the theology, morality, and philosophy of the two accounts are “in diametrical contrast.” Again, it is the Biblical narrative, revealed and written by divine inspiration, that provides the original record.

—Merrill Unger (1909–1980, American Bible commentator, scholar, archaeologist, and theologian).

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