Re: Subject: Re: Four items of possible controversy

From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 18 2003 - 02:38:09 EST

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    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>
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    >
    >
    > > -----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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