The dumbest Scripture contest

PopeADope said:

Please quote the scripture that you find more stupid than the rest.

The winner of this contest wins $50 Monopoly money.

I'm not going to quote it, but I think it was really stupid that ham and all of his descendants were cursed because he saw his drunk father butt naked.

The reason this verse is so stupid to me, is his descendants were cursed, and there is indication that many of them would be slaves as a result of this curse.

I think of how much suffering his descendants went through because he looked at his father's nakedness. It just grinds my gears.

Anything in the Bible that suggest a person's descendants will be cursed because of actions they never did, is just really stupid to me!

(The way all women have to go through such labor pains because Eve ate an apple, and how we are all cursed because of Adam and Eve's sins is also stupid.)

Who do you think hams descendants are in the world today?

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PopeADope said:

Please quote the scripture that you find more stupid than the rest.

The winner of this contest wins $50 Monopoly money.

I'm not going to quote it, but I think it was really stupid that ham and all of his descendants were cursed because he saw his drunk father butt naked.

The reason this verse is so stupid to me, is his descendants were cursed, and there is indication that many of them would be slaves as a result of this curse.

I think of how much suffering his descendants went through because he looked at his father's nakedness. It just grinds my gears.

Anything in the Bible that suggest a person's descendants will be cursed because of actions they never did, is just really stupid to me!

(The way all women have to go through such labor pains because Eve ate an apple, and how we are all cursed because of Adam and Eve's sins is also stupid.)

Who do you think hams descendants are in the world today?

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PopeADope said:

Please quote the scripture that you find more stupid than the rest.

The winner of this contest wins $50 Monopoly money.

I'm not going to quote it, but I think it was really stupid that ham and all of his descendants were cursed because he saw his drunk father butt naked.

The reason this verse is so stupid to me, is his descendants were cursed, and there is indication that many of them would be slaves as a result of this curse.

I think of how much suffering his descendants went through because he looked at his father's nakedness. It just grinds my gears.

Anything in the Bible that suggest a person's descendants will be cursed because of actions they never did, is just really stupid to me!

(The way all women have to go through such labor pains because Eve ate an apple, and how we are all cursed because of Adam and Eve's sins is also stupid.)

Who do you think hams descendants are in the world today?

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74x12 said:

It wasn't all of Ham's descendants. It was only Canaan his firstborn and the father of the Canaanites.

There is reason to believe that at the time of Peleg the people of the world decided to divide up the earth between themselves. This would likely have been accomplished through the casting of lots. All the descendants of Ham were going to Africa like Mizraim the founder of Egypt for example. But Canaan stayed in the land that was really meant for the descendants of Shem. This is why the "land of Canaan" was given to Abraham (a true descendant of Shem) instead.

As for your theory about them being slaves. I think you're reading into it. All people in the world have been slaves a time or two throughout history. Most recently in America it was people of African descent, but seriously that's the last 500 years of human history. We have thousands of years of slavery before that of other peoples.

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BSM1 said:

Actually Noah didn't really curse Ham, he cursed his grandson Canaan. Ostensibly this was because Ham, finding his father drunk, 'fixed' him in the veterinarian sense. Noah, in what had to be a very painful hangover, punished Ham in the most outrageous way imaginable at the time. This stemmed from the fact that he, Noah, could not father a fourth child.

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crossfire said:

Ahem...Ham "uncovered his Father's nakedness." See Leviticus 20:11 for what this means:

11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.​

Apparently Ham had sex with Noah's wife while Noah (and perhaps his wife as well) was drunk. That would make Canaan the son of Noah's wife by Ham. The curse on Canaan would be Noah not giving him part of a son of Noah's inheritance. (You could understand why Noah didn't have any more children if his wife was complicit in this.)

I could be wrong, however.

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PopeADope said:

sometimes when the Bible refers to one person, it's referring to all of their descendants as well.

But I accept correction. Isn't it still stupid though that Canaan was cursed for what his father did?

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InChrist said:

There is no possibility of "dumb or stupid scriptures", since the Bible is the word of an eternal Being who is the source of all wisdom. The stupidity lies with those who think they are smarter or wiser than an infinite Creator, mocking God's word out of ignorance of the actual point being expressed in passages of scripture or worse out of deliberate. arrogant hatred.

All flesh is as grass, And all ]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers, And its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord endures forever.” 1 Peter 1:24-25

And because God created mankind this way—of course, He did not have to, but chose to—we have the free will to disobey Him, blaspheme Him, and, yes, even mock Him. But we are warned in Galatians 6:7 that God will not always be mocked. The blasphemy and derision are temporary. There will be a day of reckoning, and, ultimately, a man reaps what he sows. https://www.gotquestions.org/mock-God.html

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InChrist said:

There is no possibility of "dumb or stupid scriptures", since the Bible is the word of an eternal Being who is the source of all wisdom. The stupidity lies with those who think they are smarter or wiser than an infinite Creator, mocking God's word out of ignorance of the actual point being expressed in passages of scripture or worse out of deliberate. arrogant hatred.

All flesh is as grass, And all ]the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers, And its flower falls away, But the word of the Lord endures forever.” 1 Peter 1:24-25

And because God created mankind this way—of course, He did not have to, but chose to—we have the free will to disobey Him, blaspheme Him, and, yes, even mock Him. But we are warned in Galatians 6:7 that God will not always be mocked. The blasphemy and derision are temporary. There will be a day of reckoning, and, ultimately, a man reaps what he sows. https://www.gotquestions.org/mock-God.html

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PopeADope said:

God already told me the Bible has errors. Its obvious that it does.

You don't even follow the Bible and I can prove it!

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