Did God really curse Canaan because Ham caught Noah drunk and naked?
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Noah getting caught 'drunk and naked', does not seem to be the problem; what happened (whatever it was; the Bible does not explicitly say what Ham did was) afterwords was the problem.
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To say that God didnt allow people to eat these things anciently because of no refridgeration or anything like that is absurd.  If you believe that then you would have to agree that God is not all knowing.  He must not have realized that one day in the future someone would invent a box to keep ice and meat in because if He did realize it then He surely He would have said "when the ice box in developed you may eat of these unclean animals".  \n\nThe problem here is translation the words "tahor" and "tamei" in hebrew do not translate well in to english so they chose the words "clean" and "unclean".  It is a spiritual teaching using physical things like a pig for instance.  But like any other commandment, if you strip the physical part of actually doing the commandment away, and only focus on the spiritual it will eventually loose its meaning thats why the physical is so important.  This would take me a while to explain but essentially the animals we are not to eat are scavengers, they devour other animals.  The animals that are edible chew cud.  Man was originally made to be vegetarian but when God allowed meat during the time of Noah, He chose animals that chewed cud.  If we were not going to be vegetarians then at least we would only eat animals that chewed cud so we were only one step away in the chain so to speak.  \n\nI dont want to ramble but this is a huge subject that needs to be taught.  There are so many other areas to cover like divided hooves and chewing cud being linked with rightly dividing the word and chewing on it until it becomes milk to feed "baby" believers in Yhwh.  There is really a lot there if you study it out.
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ok............................God in the old testament was a judging god. for example he gave mosos the law and he kicked adam and eve out of the garden of eden.he does this because he is angry and he alsolets the people of isreal get punished when they deserve it for example he made them lose to the philistines on purpose and he made them wander in the desert for fourty years when they listened to the eleven spies who said it is immposible to go to cannan. buit when god scolded them  they went without his permission.\nbut god also is a loving god.....................the first promise of a savior comes when he finds out about the sin of adam and eve.he promises before he punishes........................he also let the country of isreal flourish when solomom and david were the kings ans it became the most powerful and influencial country in the world
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Huge Problems!!! where!!  have you ever thought the rules of the past may not be applied to what is today!  Adam is believed to have been created as a perfect being, and we know now that the humans are not perfect! get the point!!  Once upon a time Africa was a huge forest, now it is a big desert! ever wondered why!  think about it.\nDuring the time of ADAM and EVE, some believe didn't even have a spoken language, and now, we have so many languages!! ever wondered why!\nEarth is a living, or dying plant.  what was in the past, we many never see, or see again.\nCan you explain any of my questions! if you can! then you will get the answer to your questions as well.  Good luck if you can.\n\nIf the Genesis confuse you, try the Quran, but first take two asprines before you start reading. \ntake my advice.  Sincerely llewrose MD :)
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I cannot make sense out of your question, but if you are asking if these natural disasters were "acts of God," the answer is emphatically - NO!  He does not ever wish such things on people, nor would he do anything like these without prior warnings.  \n\nA good example to study is that of Noah.  Yes, that was a major "natural disaster," but the people had been warned again and again, and chose not to listen.  Read Chapters 6-9 of Genesis.  Also note what Jesus said at Matthew 24:37-39 - "Just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.  For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away"
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my bible verses are rusty but...there is a verse where god lays out a spread of pork and tells someone to eat it...and the dude is like "no"..and god is like "go ahead...that's what it's for"....and the dude was like.."will you pass me the ketchup"...\nI'm going to Hell...aren't I....
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Any of the Hebrews men who conquered Canaan, because they got to rape any women they could grab in the cities they conquered... having murdered their fathers and brothers in front of them of course.\n\nNo, I take that back, my favourite is Elisha, because he got cool super powers and could sumon up bears to eat young boys because they called him baldy. It would b so cool to see young boys being eaten alive by a bear, don't ya think, especially for such a frivolus reason?\n\n\nNo, I changed my mind again. It's defintitely the Angel of the Lord. He gets really cool super powers all the time, and he gets to sluaghter everyone in cold blood: old men, women,  babies.\n\n"And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."\n\n\nThen he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”  When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.  And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.\n\n"And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city."
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# Deuteronomy 22:25\nBut if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.\n\n# Deuteronomy 22:28\nIf a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,\n\n# Judges 19:25\nBut the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.\n\n# Judges 20:5\nDuring the night the men of Gibeah came after me and surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.\n\n# 2 Samuel 13:14\nBut he refused to listen to her, and since he was stronger than she, he raped her.\n\n# 2 Samuel 13:32\nBut Jonadab son of Shimeah, David's brother, said, "My lord should not think that they killed all the princes; only Amnon is dead. This has been Absalom's expressed intention ever since the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.\n\n# Zechariah 14:2\nI will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be taken from the city.
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I find that question rather thought provoking and slightly humorous.\nMaybe we could communicate with all animals back then.\nHow did Noah get all those animals and bugs and creatures on the boat for instance, maybe he just asked.\nAdam did run the garden of eden and therefore he must of been very knowledgible with many things.  And if he had such a close relationship with God then who knows, maybe you are on to something.\nI did hear someone say that the animals had fear of man put into them after the flood.  And God did confuse the language of the people at the time of Babel and who knows what else .\nI think CS Lewis wrote a divinely inspired story that tugs at the heart strings of those who can see the love , gentleness and bravery and integrity of that beautiful lion. I felt like bawling my eyes out when he had to take that cruel humiliation for those whom he loved and looked after.  Just like Jesus did for us.
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Moses delivered the Israelites from bondage to Egypt. The reason that God freed them was so "that they may serve [God]." But shortly after they started their journey through the desert, the made a golden calf! So for their iniquity, they wandered in the desert for 40 years.\n\n2000 years ago, God sent His Son to deliver people from their bondage to sin & death. The purpose was NOT for liberty to do whatever ya wanna do (so that "Grace may abound"); it was so we would know what God's Word really is - to understand the Spirit of His Law (w/o the Pharisees' oral law/traditions... some of which conflicted with God's Law), to be able to seek to do His will "on earth as it is in heaven" without undue burden. It gives us the freedom to embrace the Torah (the written Word of God) and the liberty to live it as Yeshua the Messiah (the incarnate Word of God) demonstrated. He live a sinless life; He did not break any commandment of God; He followed the Torah (Sabbaths, Holy Days, clean food, etc... right down to the fringes on his clothes). And He told those who would have His Salvation: "Follow Me."\n\nBut history repeats. People do not find the narrow gate and do not stay on the straight path. For centuries upon centuries, people have been ignoring God's Law and practicing paganism - Constantine was a lifelong pagan who merely added some Christian elements to his sun god worship and called it Christianity. Almost all of the mainline Christian religions (Catholic, Protestant, non-denominational) desecrate the Sabbath which God gave as a gift to mankind, worship on Sunday (because Constantine & the Popes say-so), celebrate pagan holidays (Christmas & Easter), and in the most ironic iniquity, they eat ~Easter ham dinner~ a doubly abhorrent abomination to God! The Reformation was a failure....\n\nModern society is a moral desert we wander in because we are as rebellious as Eve was in the Garden of Eden. The proverbial log is in the eyes of the traditional institutional churches [leaders & members]; but they see specs in other heathens' eyes.\n\nGod is patient. As every parent knows, patience w/o limit is dysfunctional. Discipline & Judgment are looming over us. But "as in the days of Noah," [almost] no one cares.
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He had just turned 18. He almost didn't build the ark, because he had been out partying for days (long birthday party) and was really trashed. He initially thought gods voice was a hallucination - he had been taking magic mushrooms for a couple days. Lucky for him, the animals, and us (!) he finally came to his senses!
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What is says is that they became ashamed of the fact that they were naked.  The facts in Genesis are a literal history of actual events, it is not a metaphor or parable.  No other animal on Earth has a problem with being naked.  \n\nNot only that, but God also cursed women so that they will have pain during childbirth.  Again, no other creature on Earth experiences pain during childbirth.
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Yeah, god fouled up when he created the first commandment which states that we have to worship him and no one else.  What a jerk!
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Matthew 15:22 - 28. A Canaanite woman begs Jesus for help with her daughter, who is possessed. He tells her that he was sent only to help the lost sheep of Israel, because:\n"It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs." -Mat 15:26 (NIV)\n\nDo any of you "Christians" actually read the Bible, or do you just go around insisting that other people read it?
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Someone posted a question trying to justify incest with his daughters using the OT example of Lot as an example. I spent quite a time answering this, only to find the next morning that the question had been removed. Just in case anybody else has problems with the passage, here's my answer anyway.\n\nLot and his Daughters\n\nThank you for raising this question, it's caused me to get my Bible out and read the story again for myself. If anybody is actually interested in understanding it properly, they need to go back to Genesis 11 and start from the beginning.\n\nAn old pagan called Abram is worshipping one day at the local ziggurat in Ur of the Chaldees and Yahweh comes and reveals Himself to him. The Bible doesn't tell us that Abram did anything special to earn or merit this revelation, just that God, for His own reasons, chose to reveal Himself to him. This really upset the religious locals, who followed a mixture of astrology and Babylonian mystery religions. Abram was rejecting their pantheon of Gods and going round telling people there was only one true God. Talk about upsetting the neighbours. And you should have heard the gossip!\n\nAbram leaves Ur with his father Terah, his nephew Lot and their households. They passed through the Euphrates (a type of baptism) and arrived at Harran, where they got too comfortable and stayed until Terah dies. At this point Yahweh gives Abram a kick up the backside and points him towards the Promised Land.\n\nSome time after they arrive in Caanan there is a famine, and what happens next has a direct bearing on Genesis 19 as cited.\n\nAbram, taking Sarai his wife and Lot with him, goes down into Egypt (always a type for the world). Here they encounter all the corruption of Pharaoh’s court and the fleshpots of the most advanced nation on earth. After moving back to Caanan, Lot sits round the campfire and dreams of the forbidden things he has seen. If you carefully read the start of chapter 13, you will see that when Lot separated from Abram, he looked to the east, towards Sodom, and chose that because it reminded him of Egypt and the forbidden pleasures that he had been dreaming of.\n\nFast forward now to chapter 19 and Lot has given up farming on the plains outside of Sodom and has allowed the lure of sin to draw him inside the city. Lot had abandoned his God to the extent that he was prepared to allow his daughters to marry those that God called detestable, but even so, God did not abandon him.\n\nWe know what happened next, but if you really think that God condoned the sin you have to be crazy. The offspring of those illicit unions went on to form the Moabites and the Ammonites, two of the most cursed tribes in history.\n\nThis is a classic morality tale of reaping that which you have sown and is recorded not only as historical truth, but as an admonition to all of us. Genuine queries on any of this are welcome.
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Coz Noah forgot to let Dino on board....(kidding)\n\nno, coz Bible is a book about relationship between human and God, not Dino with God
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weird huh.\n\nconsider this too.  arn't we all really decendants of Noah?  after the flood he saved the animals and only his family.\n\npretty suspsicious.