The world is a confusing place right now. We believe that faithful proclamation of the gospel is what our hostile and disoriented world needs. Do you believe that too? Help TGC bring biblical wisdom to the confusing issues across the world by making a gift to our international work. He explained that Noah, after his exodus from the ark, planted a vineyard. After an evening of drinking, Noah passed out naked.
When his son Ham discovered his disrobed dad, he invited his brothers, Shem and Japheth, to look. Ham had sinned against righteous Noah, the pastor explained, so God cursed his son Canaan and his descendants by destining them to perpetual servitude Gen.
Just as Cain had a mark on him Gen. They were destined to continual subjugation, which is evident throughout history. The author traces the seed from Adam to Abel to Seth to Noah and here through Shem, who turns out to be the great-grandfather of Abraham Gen.
As a result, they were enslaved by a coalition of eastern kings Gen. The Canaanites were cursed because they were evil-hearted, not because they were dark-skinned. Perhaps most glaringly, there is no curse of Ham in Genesis 9 or anywhere else in the Bible. Canaan , not Ham, was cursed by Noah.
Satan is a master of Scripture-twisting Matt. The curse of Ham is a form of the prosperity gospel that provides theological justification for pride, greed, racism, and partiality. The curse served as a prooftext for pro-slavery preachers, enabling them to make heavenly sounding justifications for the hellish enslavement of dark-skinned image-bearers. Baptist pastor and Southern Seminary trustee Iveson L. God himself. Their inheritance, according to prophecy, has been and will continue to be slavery.
