Although impossible to trace, each of us has a genealogy that goes all the way back to one of the three sons of Noah.
Cain’s living descendants would have all perished in the great flood. Seth’s descendants likewise, except for Noah and his family. (It is highly likely that Noah and his sons would have found wives among their own clan.)
It’s a long train that winds back to Japheth, who almost certainly was my progenitor. But it’s not about my great-grandfather; it’s not about my father. Ham’s transgression was not overlooked because he was Noah’s boy. If anything, he was judged more harshly because he was the son of such a godly man, and should have learned from his example.
No, if the God of Genesis isn’t my Father, my human lineage, no matter what it is, can never make up for it.
