Do you believe our/your children will be payed back our/your sins with even greater calamity? Can anyone say they love their own son/daughter when they give even the tiniest anger, hatred, or inflamitory rederic?
2006-09-11 01:43:53 · 14 answers · asked by Love is the principle thing 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We are paying for the sins of our ancestors. Our ecosystem is falling apart. Nations that started fighting hundreds of years ago are fighting even bigger, deadlier battles today.
Our sins will fall on our children. They say global warming is approaching the point of no return.
It's funny how most of your repsonders don't realize that we pay for our sins in life as well as in death. God doesn't want us to sin because He knows the price we pay here and now. He's a just and loving God for that very reason.
2006-09-11 01:53:33 · answer #1 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is something to that. In a way, they are.
The reason being is that you are born and raised in an enviornment where the most influential person in you life is a sinner. You can't help but pick up on their habits. Many "sins" are taught to us as virtues. Case in point, All prejudice people teach their children to be prejudice. That's almost an airtight constant.
Things like gluttony, sloth, wrath, and envy DO tend to get passed on to offspring, just by the offspring being in such close proximity to the parent. It's not a guarentee that a fat momma will make every last one of her children fat, but it is a very strong likelyhood.
Also, if a person is a "sinner" that has no desire to not sin, they would not know how to teach their children how not to, either. With the exception of Jenny Craig, I don't thing I've ever seen or heard of some big ol' fat person trying to explain the importance of exercize and diet..... but then again, I don't get out much.
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2006-09-11 09:02:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Appearences can be deceiving. Say a man committed a crime and society was always judgemental about his offspring. Then it is not that the offspring have had to pay for the sins of their father. It is just that in a life where the roles had been reversed the humiliation that the guilty had to suffer has now been delivered. Nothing is inherited, each man for his own, we must pay for our sins.
2006-09-11 08:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by yasiru89 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God does not put the parents sins on the children. Children are born pure and innocent and free from sin. Original sin is a false Christian idea. Muslims do not believe in it, neither does anyone else as far as I know.
2006-09-11 08:45:33 · answer #4 · answered by Mustafa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...God himself comdems this thinking in Ezekiel. The Jews were blaming their sin on the parents etc. God say's : Surely as I am the living God you shall no more quote your proverb that the sins of the fathers have caused their children to sin!
Ezekiel:18 1-31
2006-09-11 08:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You asked two questions.
First: the word that Jesus used for sin, hamartia, is an archery term that means 'missed the mark', or 'made a mistake that can be corrected'... so, using that definition, I would say yes, mistakes are passed on generation to generation.
Second: when my children are being angry, hateful, or inflammatory, they need my love the most and they need my patience and understanding, too
2006-09-11 08:53:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in an odd way. Beyond the normal way of thinking, isn't humanity as a whole paying for past generations with their destructive ways to the world?
2006-09-11 10:45:52 · answer #7 · answered by guhralfromhell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
2006-09-11 08:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would still love my child even if they were a pain in the ***. But sin is an ancient historical concept that has no place in this world. Even if it did exist, they aren't transferred hereditarily.
2006-09-11 08:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ROFLMAO
When the father bites into a sour grape, does it set the sons teeth on edge?
2006-09-11 14:49:14 · answer #10 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋