Question for christians?

Question

Christians believe that the sins of father are visited upon the future generations?
Now by that Christian logic, the Black man and the Native Americans have a right to avenge the Sins of the White man on the current generations of whites!
How do you justify this? if you say it is not applicable why do you quote it whenever suitable?

Note: I'm not justifying it, it's the Bible that justifies it!

They'd be avenging but they'd be doing God's work according to the Bible!

Answer 1

I'd have to agree with your statement

Answer 2

Actually the black man has a right to avenge the sins of his own race who enslaved him first and then sold him to the slavers. And for the American Indians, what the white man did to him is the same thing that they were doing to each other for thousands of years. Since the time that they crossed over the land bridge. I guess that means that there really aren't any original people here. Everyone traveled here one way or the other. And they all brought their generational sins with them.

Answer 3

Your question, to me, is not quite clear and I don't feel that I know what you're asking. I consider myself a Christian because I believe in Christ and also that he was brought here to make a positive change in all humans (irregardless of race/color). I as a Native American don't lay blame or try to avenge the "Sins of the White Man" on the current generation of whites. Please explain where it was, or is being quoted.

Answer 4

The consequences of “generational sin” go out three or four generations. See Exodus 20:5. So even if we could use that as a rule for reparations, the statute of limitations has run. But deacon is right. Check the passage; it isn’t men who are to keep score over the generations, but God alone. He’s the only one capable of being completely fair.

Edit:

Your statement, "they'd be avenging but they'd be doing God's work," is very revealing. First, you concede it would be vengeance, which God condemns as among humans. Therefore you are knowingly advocating we sin, that good may come of it. Not good. Second, you seem to assume without basis that anything that is right for God to do is right for man to do. This utterly fails to recognize the uniqueness of the authority of the Creator over the creature. No rule governs Him but the rule of His own holy nature. You cannot extrapolate that what is right for Him is right for us. He made us. He owns us. He has a right to establish consequences for our sins. We have no such right. We must seek out justice as He has defined it and impose neither more nor less on our fellow creatures. He makes the rules, we just keep the rules. That is why He specifically states He controls vengeance, not us. Indeed, because humans taking vengeance on other humans is itself a sin, we might well expect it to have generational consequences. The Middle East? Ireland? I rest my case.

Answer 5

I don't use that referrence, but then there are alot of Christian traditions that I'm not interested in following. Violence begets violence. They can avenge their fathers deaths and mistreatments by killing and mistreating the sons of our fathers.....and someday our sons can avenge our deaths by attacking their sons....OR.....they can be merciful and forgive the past and leave the avenging to the only one who really has a right to avenge the mistreatment and slaughter of the innocent.

It might help them to forgive if more people would admit how wrong those things were. Those definitely were not the actions of a " Christian " nation.

Answer 6

Shak
first, the verse you are quoting is not a license to commit crimes against others.

when you twist the scripture as you have done to allow for blacks to avenge past crimes, you are speaking the language of the devil who was a murderer from the beginning.

the verse to which you quote has to do with idolatry and the children worshipping idols.

if you honestly believe what you are asking, then I suggest that abandon the bible because the LORD God will require of you an answer for why you are using his word to commit sin.

Jesus says, people will kill in my name, but they are not mine. You in taking the verse from the old testiment are asking if it is okay to kill in the name of the LORD and Jesus has just said you are not his, he will not confess you before his Father in Heaven.

I hope you were only asking a question, if you honestly feel this way, repent and confess your sins while there is still time. the hour is late and the return of Jesus for his people is at hand.

Answer 7

If that is the case, then whose to say those blacks and Native Americans (even though there is NO such thing as a NATIVE American), weren't paying for the sins of their fathers?

I guess we could then say that the whites were only carrying out God's will in the first place huh?

Answer 8

Ezekiel 18:19-20

19 "Yet you ask, 'Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.

This passage is out of the Christian Bible.

Answer 9

This statement is incorrect. God is the only one who can place a curse on a generation that goes 3 generations only....in the same family!! Get your facts right, you sound like an ignorant prejudice person.

Curiosity: I can't believe you can actually agree with this insane logic??

Answer 10

The sins of the father are visited on the children through generational sin. Not through the actions of other men.
What you are arguing is that 2 wrongs make a right.

Answer 11

as a black woman..i don't avenge the sins of the white man. I'm not going to go around blaming white people for something they had nothing to do with and that happen over 100 years ago. shoot i wasn't a slave.

yes, families do have generational curses...but they can be stopped.

LOL....the "white man"...does anyone else think that sounds ridiculous?