Do you believe in generational curses?

Question

If so please back up with scripture.

People believe that curses can be past down generation to generation. And they try pray trying to cast out curse on family or spirit. Is this biblical?

I want scripture to back up the persons point of view not only back it up if they say yes. I am seeking the truth - biblically

While Jesus was walking, he saw a blind man. This man had
been blind since the time he was born. Jesus' followers asked
him, "Teacher, this man was born blind. But whose sin made
him be born blind? His own sin, or his parents' sin?" Jesus
answered, "It is not this man's sin or his parents' sin that
made him be blind. This man was born blind so that God could
use him to show what great things God can do."

-- John 9:1-3 (ERV)

Answer 1

nope

Answer 2

There is scripture that states......."the curse shall be seen upon future generations up to the 10th generation." There is also scripture that says'" The sins of the father shall be cast upon the son."

That said I don't think that GOD curses us. He tells us the rules to a happy healthy life. When we choose not to follow we imprint our children who can only raise their children the same way. That is how I see the "curse or sin" being cast upon future generations....

Example. You are raised where your parents yell, cuss and hit each other and the kids when things don't go their way. As an adult you can only do what you were raised as normal. So you raise your kids with the same example. Even if you know in your heart that it is wrong....you don't know how else to handle the situation. Modern day psychologist say that it take up to 5 generations for abuse to be absolved from a family. That would be true if each generation truly sought help to stop the abuse.

Another take on the sins of the father going to the son....is drug or alcohol use .....genetically altering the child invetro....this could take generations to breed out of the bloodlines.

Answer 3

No, I don't. I know that this is an idea expressed in the Bible and other scripture (I also think that 'curse' is not the correct term). I believe that we are each responsible for our own actions but that we do learn much of our outlook and life philosophy at a very early age from our parents and environment and that things which are learned in childhood are very difficult to rid ourselves of.

Genetics also plays a part in our mental make up, so all in all we carry a fair amount of our parents' and grandparents' baggage.

I think that this is the origin of the idea that the 'sins of the father are visited on the son'. However, if you are a Christian, you believe that Jesus died on the cross to absolve us of ALL sin, including that which is hard to get rid of because it was learned so early, and also of 'original sin' (if you hold to that doctrine).

Answer 4

I believe in generational curses and I don't think that you need a scripture to back it up. Children of the 30's and 40's were brought up with a racial hatred. Kids of the 10's and 20's had to face the scar of having nothing (the depression and war). My granparents kept a basement stocked with canned foods and water. They literally had to fight to stay alive and from what they experienced they were traumatized. The Bible is full of generational punishment but what stands out is how the followers were kept out of the promise land until all in the generation had died.What will our curse be? Vanity maybe?

Answer 5

No. But negative lifestyles can be learned and handed down through generations ending in the same result for each generation. That might be misconceived as a curse.

You don't have to break the curse. You have to break the pattern.
It might be substance abuse, physical abuse, lack of education, or what ever form this "curse" seems to take on. It's up to some generation to see it for what it is, accept responsibility for it, and break the pattern.

Answer 6

There is an excellent book which deals with questions of this sort, it is called, "Christian set yourself free," and it is written by Graham and Shirley Powell.
They have a wonderful ministry in this area. Don't want to say to much on this site, but yes I do believe in generational curses.

Answer 7

We're still here, aren't we? Cast out of the Garden of Eden, we still judge things in terms of Good and Evil. Eden still eludes us.

Hard not to believe that we're still paying for that choice.

At the same time, a few of us know the way back. It's not what you think. I'm not even religious.

Answer 8

I think that you're referring to how your sins will be paid by your sons, grand-sons, and great-grandsons.

For I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God and I punish the father’s faults in the sons, the grandsons and the great-grandsons of those who hate me; but I show kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments (Exodus 20:4-6).

Answer 9

Yup, I am cursed with a psycho generation of christians. It is like living with 10,000,000 mental patients who have homicidal tendencies. I just hide in my house and wait for the christians to finally destroy the earth.

Answer 10

It has to do with karma, not with scripture. What goes around does come around. When dark energy you generated comes back your way, it might miss you and get your children instead. If you've been particularly nasty, it could go on for generations to come.

Answer 11

No, and the scriptures shouldn't be backing up superstition. If they do, there is something wrong with your concept of christianity.