Saturday, April 1, 2023
Is Genesis 9 a Pro-Slavery Text?
A certain Benjamin Joseph Palmer used it so. More specifically a pro-black slavery text. It has always been taken as endorsing some degree of penal servitude for individuals who behave badly, but not badly enough to merit death penalty. But Benjamin Palmer claimed it were a pro-black slavery text, stating a certain ethnicity ought to remain slaves up to doomsday.
Saying it is that, is like saying Habacuc 2:15 is a prohibition text.
No, it's not.
Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.
I think Kent Hovind has cited this as "cursed" and not "woe" and that online Bibles have tended to replace it to obfuscate the point. Canaan was cursed for serving Noah too much wine, falsly assuring him two pints or three won't hurt, even if he was not used to it. Noah put on him the duty to serve wine - correctly, without deceit about what the quantities would do./HGL
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Prot or Not, Quiz Answers, Mine and Correct Ones.
10:01 Kyle Whittington's round.
1 Trad (Vigano)
2
3 ? (Trad = Robert Sungenis)
4 Trad (probably truncated from Lefebvre - yep, James Battle left out "new" in the quote)
5 Trad (Marcel Lefebvre)
Kyle Whittington considered it Protestant, even though Protestants don't refer to the papacy as the See of St. Peter or see the Mystical Body of Christ as correlated with it.
I suppose Kyle Whittington is a cradle Catholic with limited exposure to either Protestants or Trads.
I got three out of five right, for the two others, I was unsure of Robert Sungenis (but it sounds like him, when I'm told), and took James White for a Trad.
17:34 The Logos Project round.
1
2 Protestant (Martin Luther) (yep, I'm an ex-Lutheran, and this was one of the things that made me take disgust at him)
3 Protestant (Wesley or Calvin?) (yep, I got the person Calvin right within one of two guesses)
4 Protestant (yep, James White)
5 Trad (Dimond Brothers) (Facebook Sedevacantist - definitely one who has heard Peter and Michael Dimond once in a while)
4/5 right.
26:03 Peruvian José's round
1 Protestant (yep, Calvin - note that Calvin says Christ's Church actually has a jurisdiction and a magisterium)
2 ? (Facebook Radtrad)
3 Protestant (though Paul Balaster, Mexican Greek Orthodox, would have agreed) (Martin Luther - I'd have guessed Henry VIII)
4 Protestant (a Radtrad would have said "of the Catholic Church") (Facebook Prot)
5 Protestant (Ellen G. White?) (James White - The Roman Catholic Controversy)
4/5 again.
28:05 Bonus:
1 Trad (Orthodox!)
I would say that Lefebvre might agree with this, or nearly, but I would not have placed it on him, since it didn't sound like him.
Perhaps he would not agree on "ultimate" ... he would have been more cautious and called it a rebellion against God, at least the parts of him I have read, but not the ultimate which is a nuance.
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