this "inherited sins" story and the connected "baptism at birth story" suggest that God is breaking promise for playing his sick games on baptised babies
if i ever see this God son of a bitch in the urinal i will make smash his teeth on the urinal and stomp on his ballz
pointing out the "facts" of your "book of skyman" is being a dick?
alright then
Not at all a bad thing to point out passages of scripture. I'll do the same.
Ezekiel 18:20
20 The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent’s sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child’s sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.We are born with a sinful nature inherited from our parents, but children are not responsible for their parent's sins. We bear the guilt or mark of our parent's sins in the form of our sinful nature.
But scripture states that
the iniquities of the father will be visited upon the children to the 3rd and 4th generations?
Yes, it does but the idea here is the broad sweeping impact of a father leading their family into sin….raising them in idolatry, sexual immorality, violence and other various pagan perversions. Again, this passage speaks of the passing of a sinful nature and teaching their children to engage that sinful nature by practicing sinful behavior.
Look at nations of biblical folks such as the Amalakites and Canaanites that God eventually punished for their reprobate behavior. He allowed them to remain unrepentant for hundreds and hundreds of years before finally pronouncing judgement upon them. They had every opportunity to turn from their unrighteousness to God’s righteousness and they refused. With each generation, a sinful nature was passed from parent to child and sinful practices were taught to children and encouraged by their parents.
On a sidenote, you also have to realize that the Hebrew language is quite small. One individual can memorize every word in the language so attempts at producing new translations from the same available manuscripts can produce slightly different translations in terms of OT material. Not all linguists agree on how words translate. Often times the differences are very slight, but occassionally they're significant.
For example, the word "yom" in Hebrew means day, but "yom" can be translated according to 5 or 6 correct definitions. In terms of the Genesis creation account some textual critics say "yom" means a literal 24-hour day and other textual critics say that same "yom" means an age or expanse of time. In the vast majority of cases the context helps define the passage.
Now in terms of children I’ve noted the following previously:
Now not every person that existed is automatically a sinner or guilty. How do we know this? Children. They have inherited a sinful nature, but are not yet sinners.
When I read about King David’s child with Bathsheba passing away and David suggesting that as a believer he would he see his child again in God’s kingdom it affirmed for me the innocence of children and others with disabilities that prevent them from making an honest choice about sin and Christ in their lives. They don’t need salvation because being saved by grace through faith in Christ means we are saved from the wrath/judgment of God. The innocents need not fear God’s wrath for they are without blame or need for judgment.
“Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. Then he said, ‘I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. So anyone who becomes as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.’”Christ also indicated how severely those that cause the children (the little ones) to fall into sin would be judged. The children are lead into sin and out of innocence.
As believers in Christ we are saved by grace through faith and thereby justified and deemed righteous….like the innocents who are inherently righteous we become like the them through Christ. Anyone who comes to God and desires forgivenessness and righteousness will be deemed as such. Even before Christ came to earth as the incarnate son and perfect sacrifice for our sin, there was Abraham and he
“believed God, and God counted him as righteous because of his faith."”