Again, you are confusing the two events. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord before the global flood.
While Scripture does not say specifically that Noah sinned,
Correct. Nor did I say so.
the fall out of his drunkenness suggests that it was sinful and wrong.
Your speculation.
The Canaanites were later destroyed as the result of Ham taking advantage of Noah's wife while Noah was passed out drunk.
Scriptures say no such thing.
Gen 9:20 "And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Gen 9:21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Gen 9:22 And
Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
Gen 9:23 And
Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
Gen 9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
Gen 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Gen 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
Leviticus 18:7 says,
"The nakedness of
thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it
is thy father's nakedness."
You have -
Ham entering his father's tent - having sex with his father's wife.
Scripture has -
Ham entering his father's tent - SEEING - his father and his father's wife naked, and then going outside of the tent and telling his brother's.
The two brother's enter their fathers' tent backwards, with a cover, and cover BOTH the shoulders of their father and his their father's wife, and exit the tent, without ever having looked upon their nakedness.
Nothing whatsoever says Ham "uncovered his father or his father's wife".
Bottom line - Noah was in HIS TENT, sleeping with HIS WIFE, and there was NO indication for Ham to join them, or be INVITED into their private tent, where they were lying together naked from the waist up. And Ham was cursed for his own behavior.
God Bless,
SBC