From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 02:38:09 EST
Glenn and I totally agree! It is a miracle! they do happen!
But it's not funny , is it?
Michael
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From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: "John W Burgeson" <jwburgeson@juno.com>;
<michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:39 AM
Subject: RE: Subject: Re: Four items of possible controversy
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> > Behalf Of John W Burgeson
> > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 9:07 AM
> > To: michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk
> > Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> > Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Four items of possible controversy
> >
> >
> > 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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