The Black Ham And The Redemption Plan

In The Unredeemed Captive, John Demos discusses the complexities within the sudden attack on Deerfield in Massachusetts including the experiences amidst of the invasion and captivity of the Williams family. John Williams, also known to be the father of the family, was a prominent and well-connected member of the New England clergy. He was also a Puritan minister who described with detail his overall experience as a captive from both The Mohawk Indian Tribe and The French Canadians, which in turn were considered to be allies. Following John Williams’s captivity, it became a matter of great concern throughout the colony. Soon enough, the Williams family had to experience the feeling of being separated with the realization that it might be the last time they would ever see each other again. Despite the misery, the life of the Williams family was changed forever when Mother

The readings of Exodus explain the departure of the Israelites from Egypt and how the covenant was renewed. The rejuvenation made Israel a nation and formed a relationship between god and his teachings. The nature of god’s presence reveals how the Israelites were authentic and productive with how they reproduced and how the land became filled with Israelites. The reality demonstrates how the new king of Egypt stated that, “The Israelite people have multiplied and become more numerous than we are”(Exodus p. 16). This reality proposes how the Egyptians became resentful against the Israelites in order them to suffer brutal slavery and make life difficult for them with intense work and punishment. The texts in Exodus acknowledge the sacrifices Hebrew women had to make in order to live through nature and reality. It states “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. They are robust and give birth before the midwife arrives” (Exodus p. 16). Gods presence through nature and reality reveals how

During this time the only thing predictable about politics in Reconstruction was its unpredictability. Colfax massacre being one of the bloodiest encounters of Reconstruction, serves as the base to Nicholas Lemann's book. Redemption is a story that shows the violent overthrow of Reconstruction in Louisiana and Mississippi in the 1870s. Brief knowledge is known to historian, but very little is known by the general public. In Lemann’s demonstration of the Civil War and Reconstruction, "redemption" is a very ironic term, and a huge play on words. Redemption was a term white supremacists used to commemorate the destruction of what they thought to be the vile imposition. Lemann’s way of embracing the white supremacist nomenclature, he made the paradoxes and the contradictions much more vivid.

3. The Lord threatens the Egyptian people that he will smite or whip there fist-born child until they are dead unless they free the Israelites. The Israelites represent the hebrew slaves.

They are his "chosen people". He did not value them over others, but invited them to become his special human partners and to have a history that was to disclose him to the world.[pic]

Besides being born into slavery came some guesses that white owners had made. Fredrick Douglass had some guesses as well. Believed a portion of slavery was started long before and be up in Bible. He thought, “that God cursed Ham and therefore American

There is a lot of reference made about Gentiles and Jews but it comes much later in the New Testament when the Jews having already rejected Jesus Christ sought to assert religious superiority and thus the word Gentiles features but it too makes no racial distinction, there were no brown black or white Gentiles, everyone else who wasn’t a Jew was just a gentile, nothing more nothing less. Their idea of ethnic superiority did not come from God as seen in Genesis 12:3 When God called Abraham, he said "In thee all thee families of earth would be blessed.". Genesis 22:18, says that Abraham's seed "all the nations of earth would be blessed." The New Testament resonates with the old as Paul says in Galatians 3:6. God's offer of salvation was to the entire world (see Matt. 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; 10:1-11:18; I John 2:2).

REHABIAH: As the grandson of Moses and his Black Afri-can wife Zipporah (see entry for “Zipporah”), Rehabiah was of Black African extraction, as were his descendants (1Ch 23:15, 17; 24:21; 26:25), among whom were Shelomoth and his brothers. (See entry for “Shelomoth” below.)

They go on about the fact that if he was born in Bethlehem, then why is he called Jesus of Nazareth. Why Jesus would be from Nazareth and not Bethlehem, has led us to many questions and a lot of possible answers, such as, according to Michael Coogan, the idea that Jesus might have been from Nazareth all along.

An understanding of Israel’s history and geography is necessary for proper interpretation of the Old Testament. The Middle East provided the setting for the events recorded in the Old Testament, specifically Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Syria-Palestine. This area lies along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia up to the Persian Gulf. This area was the cradle of civilization and the scene of God 's activities as recorded in the Old Testament. The majority of the events take place in Palestine, the ancient land of Canaan, though at times the Israelites lived in Egypt and Babylon. This is

The poem and the narrative both reveal that there is a lot of religious hypocrisy within child labor and slavery. Christians are supposed to be kind to one another and help those who have less than them, but leaders shown exemplify the opposite. Douglass illustrates that the men who beat and abuse him are Christian people. Douglass explains that the slaveholders used the Bible to make slavery seem okay. Slaveholders believed that God cursed Ham for mocking Noah and that dark skin was the punishment in the Old Testament. He is able to prove that this statement does not add up, and demonstrates that the people within slavery are hypocrites. Christians are

Jesus lived in Judea (later called Palestine), a Middle Eastern land ruled by the Romans. The Romans crucified Jesus about A.D. 30. Jesus' followers were convinced that He rose from the dead, and they soon spread Christianity to major cities throughout the

     Abraham stands as one of the most important figures in the Hebrew Bible, and is central to the understanding of God’s solution to the problem of mankind. Man, the mysterious creature that God wraught as a semi-experiment, is constantly prone to believe he is self-sufficient and capable of survival without God, the central problem God must deal with in the Hebrew Bible. To solve this problem, God decides to strike fear in the heart of man and to revolutionise his lifestyle by creating laws and empowering a chosen group of people, who will spread the word of God by example. These people are the Hebrews, and Abraham is the father of their race, the man from whom all

were chosen by God to set up a state of Israel where they could not be

There are major biblical records that give account of several contract of inception of Christianity in Africa. The child Jesus was taken to Egypt for safety as recorded in Matthews’ gospel, Simon who was compelled to carry Jesus cross was from Cyrene (Libya), there where visitors from Egypt and Cyrene during the Pentecost and where responsible for the founding of the church in Antioch the Ethiopia Eunuch in Acts 8. According to Elizabeth Isichei, while every day in the west, roughly 7500 people in effect stop being Christians everyday in Africa roughly double that number become Christians. The expansion of Christianity in the twentieth century African has been so dramatic that it has been called the fourth great age of Christian expansion” right from the inception in Africa, Africans has played a vital role for the growth of Christianity. “Christianity in Africa is of global significance, and the direction it takes is of importance to Christians everywhere. In the past, foreign missionaries Christianized Africa. Today the Christians of Africa are invited to Africanize Christianity” . Thomas C. Oden noted,. “Western Christian dogma was formed with precision in Africa before it became ecumenically received world wide” .