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Are children punished for the sins of their parents?



    
    

Clarify Share Report Asked July 01 2013 Mini Anonymous (via GotQuestions)

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Data Pearl Kelley

What about;
(Exodus 20:5)--"You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,"
(Deuteronomy 5:9)--"You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,"
(Exodus 34:6-7)--"Then the Lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."

November 25 2014 Report

Mini Larry Truelove

The "curse" on the children's generation was under the law. There are no curses under the new covenant unless one is rejecting Christ. But even that is individual, not generational.

However, children often behave as they are taught or not taught. There are social and familial environmental factors but these are not curses.

February 16 2015 Report

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