Peter Says God Will Again Bring Punishment On A Wicked Earth

In The Poisonwood Bible, one of the most significant allusions refers to the Curse of Ham story in the Bible. Essentially, the prophet Noah became intoxicated and when one of his sons, Ham, found him, began laughing as he called his brothers, Shem and Japheth to cover up their father so they would not have to see his nakedness. Surprisingly, when Noah woke up, he was extremely angry when he found out that Ham has mocked his nudity, so he cursed Ham’s youngest son Caanan.

This paper, is an in depth comparison of the similarities and differences between the Bible characters Adam and Noah. Furthermore, this paper will examine the lives of both men as well as God’s influence in their lives. In addition, this will allow the reader to come to the conclusion that Noah is “A Second Creation”, a new beginning of mankind.

‘I now establish My covenant with you and your offspring to come, and with every living thing that is with you. – birds, cattle, and every wild beast as well – all that have come out of the ark, every living thing on earth. I will maintain My covenant with you: never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”(Genesis pg. 174) This is Gods way of letting Noah know that he will never again flood the earth again.

God also told Noah about the plan for the flood, and what he was to do with the ark. Noah, his wife, his sons, and his sons wives would all be on the ark an spared from the destruction the flood would cause. Along with his family, God wanted Noah to bring two of all living creatures, one male, and one female. Brining a male and a female of each kind of creature would allow them to reproduce and repopulate their species. The last thing God commanded Noah to do was to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and stored for his family and the creatures.

Everything on earth will perish. 18 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 19 You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” 22 Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” This was God’s command to Noah, unlike Utnapishtim who was told the secret of the flood by one of the gods.

“And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren…Cursed be Canaan: a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, blessed be the Lord God of Shem: and Canaan shall be his servant” Genesis 9:22, 25-26.

In the NIV version of Genesis 9:18-28, Noah's curse was the main reason to why the slave owners had to justify slavery as it tells a story of how Ham, Noah's son, saw his drunken father unclothed, told his brothers about it, and they somehow covered him without looking at him. When Noah woke up and found out what Ham did, he cursed Ham's son, Canaan, and his future descendants. The slave owners interpreted this story as a dishonor to the father, consequently calling for the mistreatment of slaves. Stephen Haynes asserts, "…proslavery southerners were attracted to the story of Noah and Ham because it resonated with their most deeply-held cultural values" and "understood Ham's transgression as a violation of familial loyalty that marked him and his descendants as utterly lacking in honor (and thus fit for slavery)". What Ham did led the slave owners to believe that because of his behavior, slaves needed to be punish for what he

in Genesis, God is speaking to Noah, " then the lord said to Noah ' Go into the ark with all your house hold, for you alone have I found righteousness before Me in this generation'" (Genesis 51).God said that Noah was righteous among all people on earth, so he saves him and his house hold by making them build a boat. After Noah builds the ark he and his house hold stay in there while the whole world floods.

Sodom has become a name of infamy for all generations; and its awful doom stands forth as a perpetual sign that God 's patience with sin has a bound beyond which it will not go. God does not judge every

In the Bible, God speaks to Noah, saying many times over that the world that he created has become

O. Palmer Robertson sees the story of Ham and Noah’s nakedness as one of sexual sin. While Robertson does state, there are some who argue for an issue of disrespect, he points out that the phrase "looking on a person's nakedness" could refer to a graver sexual sin. Robertson goes on to compare the passages such as found Leviticus 20:17 as more modest way to indicate a sexual sin. He sees the same issue in Leviticus 20:19 and the reference to a close relative. Robertson’s strongest argument comes from the actions of Ham’s brothers and how they approached the situation by walking backward and covering their father. In their life it would not have been unreasonable to assume they had seen their father naked at some point. The text seems to tell

There are several Hebrew words that are translated into one English word “wine.” The most common word in Hebrew for wine is יָ֫יִן (yayin). It is used in verses such as Genesis 9:21, “And he drank of the wine (yayin), and was drunken.” In this case, yayin is definitely alcoholic which caused Noah to be inebriated. The same term is also used in Isaiah 22:13, “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine (yayin): let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.” However, in the same book of Isaiah, in chapter 24, verse 7, Isaiah the prophet uses the term תִּירוֹשׁ (tirosh): “The new wine (tirosh)

The Torah, commonly known as the “Law of Moses,” contains the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These five narrative books cover the Biblical eras of creation, the patriarchs, and the exodus. In Genesis 1, God created everything from nothing at His will in six days and proclaimed all of it “good.” Humankind was created, Adam and Eve, in God’s image, and they lived in the pure garden of Eden. Sin is introduced to the world when a serpent convinces Eve, who subsequently convinces Adam, to eat from the the tree of good and evil, which God strictly forbade. God judged their sin, bans them from Eden, they went out in the world, and birthed sons Cain and Abel. After Cain killed Abel out of jealousy, God again judged sin by cursing Cain, but exemplified forgiveness in Genesis 6 through his promise to curse whoever tried to hurt him. Generations later, descendant of Adam, Noah, is introduced, as well as his wife Naamah and their sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In Genesis 6, God decided to start over, but saved Noah, his family, and animals, by telling Noah to build an ark to endure the great flood. Noah fulfilled God’s orders and built an alter to Him after the flood seceded, but his descendants prove the corruptness of humankind yet again and God

While not initially referred to as a curse in Gen 8:19 God identifies the flood as such, “I will not again curse the ground on account of humanity…nor will I again wipe out all life that I have made.” Noah, because of the sin of mankind is forced away from the earth by the flood.

"Sodom and Gomorrah have become symbols of human wickedness especially associated with Homosexuality and Sodomy".(Green) Even though Sodom and Gomorrah were in fact destroyed by God for “all of their wickedness”(Walvoord and Zuck 60) and "not even ten righteous people could be found" ”(Walvoord and Zuck 60) in those cities. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for there sins against God. In the book of Genesis the only reason given for those cities destruction is “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because there sin is Grave.”(Genesis 18:22)