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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Perhaps the lesson is:
6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind: 8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12 can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
Maybe this is James exposition on Noah.
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Z, You were a school teacher, right? You know how the words of an adult can affect a young person.
Now imagine if this young person is the grandson of the great Noah, and Noah curses him. What affect might that have on his psyche? He just might say to himself, "This is how the man of God talks? This is what he thinks of me? His God must hate me. So I want nothing to do with his God."
Thus begins the Canaanites.