Taking What Is Not Yours

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Taking What Is Not Yours

• Dispossession
• the act of depriving somebody of what he or she
  owns, especially land or money.
• the state of being deprived.

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Taking What Is Not Yours

• What is Noahs Sin?
• Planting a Vineyard?
• Drinking Wine?
• Drunkenness?
• Nakedness?

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Taking What Is Not Yours

• What is Noahs Sin?
• Planting a Vineyard?
• Drinking Wine?
• Drunkenness?
• Nakedness?
• Key Noah is 2nd Adam

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Taking What Is Not Yours
"And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness
of his father and told his two brothers outside."
(Genesis 922, ESV)
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Taking What Is Not Yours

• What is Hams Sin?
• Voyeurism?
• Sexual?
• Degradation and Attempted Dispossession?

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Taking What Is Not Yours

• What is Hams Sin?
• Voyeurism?
• Sexual?
• Degradation and Attempted Dispossession?
• Key Noah is 2nd Adam

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Taking What Is Not Yours
"And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had
dreamed of them. And he said to them, You are
spies you have come to see the nakedness of the
land." (Genesis 429, ESV)
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Taking What Is Not Yours
"Then Shem and Japheth took a (the) garment, laid
it on both their shoulders, and walked backward
and covered the nakedness of their father. Their
faces were turned backward, and they did not see
their fathers nakedness." (Genesis 923, ESV)
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Taking What Is Not Yours
We would not put up with a debauched king, but
in a democracy all of us are kings, and we praise
debauchery as pluralism. John Gardner in On
Moral Fiction
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Taking What Is Not Yours
In our ideal form, the culture of liberalism
would be one that was enlightened, secular,
through and through. It would be one in which no
trace of divinity remained. . . . Such a culture
would have no room for the notion that there are
nonhuman forces to which human beings should be
responsible. Richard Rorty Philosopher
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Taking What Is Not Yours
Christ in us vs. We are in Christ
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Taking What Is Not Yours
"So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin
and alive to God in Christ Jesus." (Romans 611,
ESV) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation. The old has passed away behold,
the new has come." (2 Corinthians 517, ESV)
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Taking What Is Not Yours
"Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God,
and God in him. And by this we know that he
abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given
us." (1 John 324, ESV)
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Taking What Is Not Yours
You are not your own, for you were bought with
a price...." (1 Corinthians 619-20, ESV)