Join us as we seek clarity on this text and explain the relatively common misinterpretation that has been used to justify racial acts for years.
Commonly referred to as the Curse of Ham, the case was made historically from this text that God had willed that the descendants of Ham, i.e., Black Africans, would be enslaved perpetually by other people groups. And that belief, and it's subsequent degradation and subjugation of Black people, can be traced across Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Now, get this, such gross misinterpretation of Genesis 9 and 11 in building a biblical case for the institutions of slavery and Apartheid wasn’t just made by politicians and secular people of that time – but it was also made by Christians, pastors, theologians, and denominations.
We have the privilege of living in an age where one would be hard-pressed to justify the atrocities of both slavery and Apartheid. And yet, we shouldn’t be easily dismissive of the fact that the Bible was historically misused, through texts like these, to justify the unjustifiable – even by Christians!
Have a listen to the sermon to find out why we should be so careful of misinterpreting the bible and the key observations in this text IN CONTEXT!