By law of God...?

Question

If my mother walks into a room she's not supposed to be in, where confidential information lay--a room she was told never to go in by superiors--should I be punished? And my children? And my children's children?

They should be, right?

Think about that. How much sense does that make? That's not justice. That's injustice. It's not morality. That's a JOKE.

@KAL: If God created everything, then God IS biology. If he wanted it to affect you biologically, then it was his doing. It is indeed a matter of justice.

Answer 1

She probably should be, but why should you and your children be punished?

Answer 2

HUH?

If a women walked into a room where she was told never to go by someone who had authority to issue that order, she should expect to be punished according to whatever punishment was associated with that trespass. If, for example, it was a room in the workplace, and she was told she would be fired if she entered it, she should expect to be fired if she chooses to disobey.

As for her children (and their children and so on), if the punishment somehow included something that would affect them, then yes, they may suffer the punishment too...but that is her choice not her employer's choice. For example, if her employer told her not to go into a room that contained top-secret, experimental hazardous materials because it could kill or injure her, and she did it anyway and exposure to those materials altered her genetic structure, her children would certainly inherit the punishment from her perhaps until the end of time!

The simple fact is that Adam and Eve chose death over obedience and that decision caused them to become mortal beings. Because their offspring are a product of them, we too are destined to be mortal. If you want to think of death as a punishment that God keeps handing out to successive generations, go ahead...the way I see it, death is a characteristic that they chose and once it became a part of them, their descendants also carried the same characteristics. This has nothing to do with justice or injustice or morality...it is simple biology!

Answer 3

The reason "your punished" is NOT BY GOD, but by your Mother : ( I know that sounds inane, but the reasoning is this: by disrespecting and not following rules she is "bucking the system" saying that she does not have to 'obey the rules.' She will then pass along this attitude to her offspring and then they to theirs, etc. Only with time with this cycle be broken.

I used to hate God because he punished the children of prostitutes for 7 generations. Then one day in group therapy for child abuse, my psychiatrist said something that caught my attention. She said it usually takes 7 generations to break the cycle of child abuse. Interesting. Did God know that way back when, well, if he made us, of course he would. It wasn't that he was punishing the children, they were just in bad situations that took time to fix. There's no magic bullet that gets rid of pain, only with 15 years of painful therapy and reliving all the hell I went through and letting the scars reheal normally now AS AN ADULT who realizes that I'm SAFE, can I say I'm truly HAPPY! and life is grand.

So, before you start cursing the sky and shaking your fist, please realize that human psychology just may be a factor in what you've read. Perhaps God is just informing you that when humans are not 'perfect' some of our mistakes can hurt others even when we don't notice. Small things that can be remembered for a life-time that 'we' forget immediately but 'they' will never forget. Perhaps a wrong word at the wrong time, something we don't even notice. So, we need to be aware of others, their feelings and our own before we open our mouths and hurt others is what God is saying.

Sometimes the hurt is sexual, physical, verbal, you imagine, we humans have done it to each other.

Answer 4

That would be true, if there was such a thing as original sin. This is yet another fallacy of the modern church. In more than one place, it is biblical, that the sins of the father do not taint the child.

What is called original sin is just a misreading of Genesis. Adam and Eve's sin was to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge...they acquired the ability to tell good from evil. This is needed in order to make decisions for yourself...What they passed onto their descendants is this ability, to know what is good, and what is evil, to decide for themselves.

We don't bear their sin, since they are the only ones who can be responsible for that, we bear the knowledge of good and evil, we can make our own decisions, and, as a consequence, we are responsible for those decisions we make.

It's not original sin, it's the loss of innocence, the ability to choose evil, and, as a consequence, have to bear the burden of when we choose evil.

Answer 5

The best way I know to explain original sin is this:

Our first parents disobeyed God. In doing so, they cut themselves off from His grace, His life. If I have this right, it's like sinfulness became part of their being. It's why we are born in the same condition.

Look up the word concuspience in the Catholic Encyclopedia; might help to answer your question.

Answer 6

It's pretty obvious that your mother did exactly what she was told not to, so she deserves whatever punishment they give her, but I don't know how far down the line it should go. It seems silly for anyone to punish someone and their children. .

Answer 7

That means you do not comprehend,more proof of The Bible.
This is genetics's,something it took science a really long time to figure out,we have the same genetic makeup as our family before us.

Answer 8

God forbid, if your mother contracted the disease of HIV, she would pass it on to you.

original sin is a spiritual disease, that causes God's absence in the Human body. Baptism corrects that when the Holy Trinity return to live in the body. God bless.

Answer 9

I wish I could be held responsible for something arbitrary my great-grandparents did. That would make life so worth living.

Answer 10

That is completely different. Eve and Adam sinned. They brought the characteristic of SIN onto the human race. Descendants have characteristics of their ancestors. ...Idiot.