OneThatGotAway said:
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I'm way ahead of you: I have already critically analyze the matter of the "Sins of the Father" and found it to be morally acceptable depending on the context of the sin.
That speaks volumes about your morality, you know? That you find it morally acceptable for descendants to bear the transgression of their ancestors, despite having committed no "sin" themselves. But again, this is required for the preservation of your belief. Because if we aren't responsible for the sins of Adam and Eve, then we don't need Jesus. And if you aren't sinful by your very nature, then there was absolutely no reason for Jesus to hang on that cross.
I hope it does; especially compares to the world's so-called morality (or lack thereof in some societies). I accept that all the sons of Aedam are born in sin because of the sin of their the first father, Aedam. That being said, all of mankind would have committed the same sin had they had the chance. In fact, today, people commit sinful acts that would affect the generations to come. And they know this before they do it; yet they STILL do it! That speaks volume to their morality in things that they can control. On the other hand, I accept the fact that children should not pay for the "sins of their fathers"
"Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation]." -- Exodus 34:7 KJV
"The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." -- (Deuteronomy 24:16 KJV)
"Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, [and] hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." (Ezekiel 18:19-20 KJV)
For example, if a man murders another man, his son should not have to die for his father's action. Yet after his father's execution, the sins of the boy's father has affected boy's life. In what way? Now the boy is fatherless. The boy is in poverty because the father was the sole breadwinner of the family. The boy carries the shame that his father was a murderer. They boy has been forced to moved from a wealthy high society to a low-income ghetto or orphanage. And so on.