And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
Genesis 9:18 belongs to the inspired, divine words of Genesis, and those words are affirmed as truth by Jesus Himself. They are not myth or parable but authoritative Scripture carrying divine certainty.
The verse records literal history that Noah was a real, living person and that Shem, Ham, and Japheth went forth with him out of the ark after the literal flood. What it names is an actual family preserved through an actual judgment and emerging into a renewed world.
The Old and New Testaments cannot be divorced, and the New Testament continually carries minds back to this Old Testament history. Noah's story is therefore retained as foundational, with the later Scriptures deliberately directing attention to it rather than setting it aside.
The history of Noah's day prefigures the present age before Jesus appears in the clouds of heaven. Human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same now as then, and the character of that generation specifies the character of this age.
Genesis 9:18 belongs to the inspired, divine words of Genesis, and those words are affirmed as truth by Jesus Himself. They are not myth or parable but authoritative Scripture carrying divine certainty.
The verse records literal history that Noah was a real, living person and that Shem, Ham, and Japheth went forth with him out of the ark after the literal flood. What it names is an actual family preserved through an actual judgment and emerging into a renewed world.
The Old and New Testaments cannot be divorced, and the New Testament continually carries minds back to this Old Testament history. Noah's story is therefore retained as foundational, with the later Scriptures deliberately directing attention to it rather than setting it aside.
The history of Noah's day prefigures the present age before Jesus appears in the clouds of heaven. Human nature uninfluenced by the Spirit of God is the same now as then, and the character of that generation specifies the character of this age.