Ham’s Sin Against Noah & the Curse of Canaan (Genesis 9:18–29) | Chad Bird

Immediately after the flood, Noah gets drunk, and Ham sins against him by “seeing” his “nakedness.” Noah responds by cursing Ham’s son, Canaan. But what exactly did Ham do against Noah, and why does Noah curse his son instead of Ham himself?

Additionally, this passage was infamously used to justify racism against and the enslavement of black Africans. Appeal was made to the so-called “curse of Ham.”

So how should we understand this passage? Dr. Chad Bird joins me on What in the Word? to discuss.

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The Suffering Christian’s Victorious Christ (1 Peter 3:18-22)

The Suffering Christian’s Victorious Christ (1 Peter 3:18-22)
South City Church
November 12, 2017

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“We Will Have to Change”

Recent events have caused us to rethink our society.[1] It has been said that “we [our nation] will have to change.” Many solutions have been proposed.

Before the Genesis-flood, God described humanity as such: “The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time” (Gen 6:5). “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways” (11, 12). One might find some parallels between this description and they way many individuals currently feel about our society.

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