From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 21:39:43 EST
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> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of John W Burgeson
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> To: michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk
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> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Four items of possible controversy
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> Michael wrote: "Also people like Henry Morris as well puts forward the
> myth of Sons of
> Ham being negroes and are of limited intelligence."
>
> I was unaware of this -- can you give me a citation?
I can.
"The descendants of Ham were marked especially for secular service to
mankind. Indeed, thy were to be 'servants of servants,' that is,
'servantes*extraordinary!' Although only Canaan is mentioned specifically
(possibly because the branch of Ham's family through Canaan would later come
into most direct contact with Israel), the whole family of Ham is in view.
The prophecy is worldwide in scope and, since Shem and Japheth are covered,
all ham's descendants must be also. These include all nations which are
neither Semitic nor Japhetic. Thus, all of the earth's 'colored'
races--yellow, red brown, and black--essentially the Afro-Asian group of
peoples, including the American Indians--are possibly Hamitic in origin and
included within the scope of the Canaanitic prophecy, as well as the
Egyptians, Sumerians, Hittites, and Phoenicians of antiquity." Henry M.
Morris, The Beginning of the World, (El Cajon: Master Books, 1991), p. 147
Then he goes on to say:
"Yet the prophecy again has its obverse side. Somehow they have only gone so
far and no farther. The Japhethites and Semites have, sooner or later, taken
over their territories, and their inventions, and then developed them and
utilized them for their own enlargement. Often the Hamites, especially the
Negroes, have become actual personal servants or even slaves to the others.
Possessed of a genetic character concerned mainly with mundane matters, they
have eventually been dispplaced by the intellectual and philosophical acumen
of the Japhethites and the religious zeal of the Semites."
"The Japhethites have been 'enlarged,' taking over lands originally settled
by Hamites, and developing the Hamitic technology into science and
philosophy. Japhethites have provided the intellectual aspect to humanity's
life, Hamites the physical and Semites the spiritual. japheth has, even int
he present age, largely taken over the religious function from
Shem--'dwelling in the tents of Shem."
"These very general and broad national and racial characteristics obviously
admit of many exceptions on anindividual genetic basis. It is also obvious
that the prophecy is a divine description of future facts, in no way needing
the deliberate assistance of man for its accomplishment. Neither Negroes nor
any other Hamitic people were intended to be forcibly subjugated on the
basis of this Noahic declaration. The prophecy would be inevitably
fulfilled because of the innate natures of the three genetic stocks, not by
virtue of any artificial constraints imposed by man." Henry M. Morris, The
Beginning of the World, (El Cajon: Master Books, 1991), p. 148-149
I find this disgusting and racist.
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