Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
Albert Barnes writes, “The history here given of the postdiluvians has a striking resemblance in structure to that of the antediluvians. The preservation of Noah from the waters of the flood, is the counterpart of the creation of Adam after the land had risen out of the roaring deep. The intoxication of Noah by the fruit of a tree corresponds with the fall of Adam by eating the fruit of a forbidden tree. The worldly policy of Nimrod and his builders is parallel with the city-building and many inventions of the Cainites. The pedigree of Abram the tenth from Shem, stands over against the pedigree of Noah the tenth from Adam; and the paragraph now before us bears some resemblance to what precedes the personal history of Noah. All this tends to strengthen the impression made by some other phenomena, already noticed, that the book of Genesis is the work of one author, and not a mere file of documents by different writers.”
I have little trouble believing that Moses, believed to be the man GOD used to pen the words of the first five books of the Bible, had multiple resources from which to draw in the preparation of these documents. That, however, is a far cry from the opinions of the higher critics who claim Genesis is a compilation of the works of multiple scribes thousands of years after the life of Moses would have been lived. Such opinions are meant to undermine the inspiration of the Word of God, taking it away from God and placing it into the minds of men whose works would have been less than genuine, nowhere near infallible, and therefore not an accurate account of creation, the fall of man, the flood, or most importantly, the beginnings of God’s plan of redemption.
Barnes’ observations serve to support what Jews and Christians have understood all along: Genesis is the work of one author, God, and penned by one man, we believe to be Moses. Modern scholarship, one of the many divisions of the religion of secular humanism, works overtime to preach anything they can dream up to divert man’s faith away from the true and living God to a god of their own making—the god of self-will.
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