Many people have linked race and racism to the beginning of time, using the stories of the Bible to explain this racial confusion. ... CHAPTER TWO Race and The Bible Many people are familiar with biblical stories and many religious ideas, and for the most part many of the stories and ideas agree. Well there is one biblical story that I have gathered from my readings, that not many people agree upon and that is the story of Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. ... With the way the story is interpreted, it gives the idea that the sons are individuals and not nations of people. ... Th...

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The Old Testament is also read to discover what ideas are quoted within the work, that others have used to justify malice towards one's enemies. ... Klassen shows that in this story Cain is given the protection of God. ... Within the ranks of the Patriarchs (Jacob and Esau) the stories of blood feuds continued. The stories extended to the confrontations between David and Saul. ... A similar message is also quoted within the Amen-Em-Opet. ...

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Stories of the creation of the earth, mankind, animals, and plants along with the flood recountings are similar to other non-Jewish stories. ... In the Old Testament there are stories regarding female heroic figures and women that have taken independent action, like Deborah or Jezebel. ... The creation of man and woman simultaneously parallels the Mesopotamian creation story, Enuma Elish. ... It has been postulated that stories of the patriarchs in Genesis offer some indications of transition from matrilocal and matrilineal to patrilocal and patrilineal family organization in some of the tribe...

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This story shows us that God desires not just any offering, but our best offering. ... Youngblood places this culturally by quoting Deuteronomy 25.5-6: "If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. ... God used this unknown woman, who was willing to do God's will, in the story of deliverance. ...

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Three sections are often quoted when people use the Bible to condemn homosexuality: The story of the city of Sodom, the priestly codes of Leviticus, and the letters of Paul. (Silver 59) The story of the city of Sodom is one of the most widely told stories of the Bible. ... The story is recounted in the book of Genesis: 1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; 2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarr...

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