Monday, September 15, 2008

Intergenerational Sin

2 Chronicles 25:4 However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the LORD commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin."

Yet God will "[visit] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation (Deuteronomy 5:9)." Although God does this He does not allow us to judge others in this manner. We are not God. We must judge based solely on the actions of the individual...Similarly Jesus Christ "of thine own mouth will I judge thee (Luke 19:22)"...Remember sin is ethical, not metaphysical.

Note: God imputes sin but I'm not sure if He condemns solely based on imputation alone. That is a tough issue to answer, which I cannot at this moment.

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