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Originally Posted by Virginia D. Templeton
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What exactly did Ham do? Genesis 9:24 says that Noah "awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him," but all we know for certain is that he saw his father in the nude. The way the incident is worded, it seems like it could have been an accident, yet Noah was angry enough to curse Canaan and most likely all of his descendants. Did Ham molest or sodomize his father? Honestly, I have no idea. Bible scholars have debated this since the dawn of time. As a woman, I am forbidden from teaching or interpreting the word of God (1 Timothy 2:12), so all I can offer is idle speculation.
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Perhaps one of our Pastors would like to weigh in here on this point Sister, but I believe that God was purposely being vague on this so as not to put any ideas in anyone's head. Contrast this with the story of Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19) wherein Lot's daughters did their duty to carry on the family name by bearing two sons after Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt for disobeying the Lord.
God is quite explicit here, and it is quite compelling - particularly after observing one of the Biblical re-enactment videos that one of Landover's Youth Ministers shared with me some years ago. I can only surmise that Noah must have awakened to find Santorum on his tallywhacker to justify his righteous rage.
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Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
- Genesis 19:32-36
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