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1 | sins of the father | Bible general Archive 4 | DocTrinsograce | 222711 | ||
Hi, Lightedsteps... The Jeremiah 31:29-30 passage you cited is not an assertion by God, but His quoting the objections of the people (cf Lamentations 5:7; Ezekiel 18:2-3). Ezekiel 18:19-22 is the same sort of thing. Fundamentally, they are accusing God of unrighteousness (cf Deuteronomy 24:16) and God forebearingly dispenses with their objections. Consequently, your citations do not provide the Biblical support for which you are trying to apply them. By the way, the objections of the Babylonian captives makes me mindful of how people jump up and down today saying things like "God won't do that because it isn't fair!" The last thing that a people in our condition want is fairness. What we need is mercy. In Him, Doc |
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2 | sins of the father | Bible general Archive 4 | lightedsteps | 222714 | ||
Hi Doc So then what you are saying is. These verses, really don't mean what they are saying? Eze.18:20 20) (THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE. THE SON SHALL NOT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHER, NEITHER SHALL THE FATHER BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE SON: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. Deut. 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Where then is the scripture or scriptures, that supercede, or nullify what these do say? Grace be unto you lightedsteps |
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3 | sins of the father | Bible general Archive 4 | lionheart | 222715 | ||
lightedsteps, Good day to you. I don't believe Doc was saying anything about things being nullified. Scripture never contradicts it's self. Now with that said, yes people are responsible for their own sin and will be accountable for their sin. But how often have the consequences of ones sin impacted the lives of others. All the time, history is full of examples. That's why we should be so gratefull to God for His grace and mercy to us by His Son Jesus Christ. In Him, lionheart |
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4 | sins of the father | Bible general Archive 4 | lightedsteps | 222718 | ||
lionheart Good day to you, please excuse the delay, and thanks for your input:-) In your saying "But how often have the consequences of ones sin impacted the lives of others." Yes people all the time, do end up holding the bag for the things other people have done, but that isn't quite the point is it? The question that was originally asked, was about generational sins, not there consequences. In other words, the children will commit the same sins of the parents, as a generational curse. IMHO the generational sins now under discussion, do not exist. Hypothetical: Two brothers, and one sister grow up in a family where the father is an alcoholic, and abuses the mother, these children see this abuse take place on a regular basis, when these three children are grown, getting married themselves, one brother drinks, and abuses his wife just as his father had done, the second brother does not drink or abuse his wife, but the sister, finds herself being abused like her mother was. So then if the sin of spousal abuse is passed on to the children in a generational curse, to the third and the fourth generation. Should not the curse pass on to all the children, or is this type of curse selective? Why would one brother be a drunk, and abuse, and the other not? Lastly what is the sin the sister is committing by being the one abused? Isn't this nothing more than, the learned behavior of two children observing, but then again the second brother having observed the same things,"CHOSE" to not drink, or abuse. Therefore in such things we do have a choice, there is no generational curse, it is nothing more than the fallen human nature, and learned behavior. Grace be unto you lightedsteps |
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