Re: Teaching Your Children About Other Races -
02-21-2021, 04:00 PM
I was disappointed he didn't follow up the Scripture references I took the trouble to include. Following the linked passages and reading around the verse for context helps us to see the very process of degeneration at work.
From the time of Adam, people had degenerated quite a lot. God killed everyone off and started again with Noah, as is well known, but also worth remembering is that there were sons with wives of their own. For the degeneration to resume, as it did with Ham, and for his progeny to (or at least those through Canaan) to finish up at the bottom of the pile in so short a space of time suggests that his and Shem and Japeth's wives must have contributed something to the mix.
Articulate humans in communion with God have preserved the ideal sufficiently to show what Adam must have been like. A third beginning comes with Christ, a second Adam rather than a second Noah, when once again everyone following degenerate belief systems will be destroyed. Some of them don't even have writing any more! The world today only makes sense when you read The Bible and understand what God is teaching us. For that you need to be able to read (or have someone read it to you) and to understand the words God uses. He was able to communicate effectively with Adam, Noah, Moses but not everyone is like that.
The Bible explains why. Sure, there are disbelievers who have completely different ideas, virtually the opposite of what God teaches. Ask them for evidence. Do their replies make sense? Can they be verified? When it comes to The Bible though, the evidence is overwhelming.
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