The sins of the father shall be visited upon the son?

Answer 1

No. Romans 6/14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Genesis 9:21-25 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father .... And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan [Ham's son]; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Exodus 20:5 , Deuteronomy 5:9 I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Exodus 34:7 Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children unto the third and to the fourth generation. Numbers 14:18 Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. Deuteronomy 23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. Deuteronomy 28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. 1 Samuel 3:12-13 I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house ... I will judge his house for ever ... because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not. 2 Samuel 12:14 The child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. 2 Samuel 21:6-9 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD .... And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD. 1 Kings 2:33 Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever. 1 Kings 11:11-12 Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. 1 Kings 21:29 Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. 2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. Isaiah 14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers. Jeremiah 16:10-11 Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? ... Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord. Jeremiah 29:32 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed. Jeremiah 32:18 Thou ... recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. Zephaniah 1:8 I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. Deuteronomy 24:16 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. 2 Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Jeremiah 31:29-30 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniquity. Ezekiel18:20 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. If You Are To Use These Laws That Jesus Fulfilled. Then Pray Tell To What Effect Was Jesus~s Teachings And Giving Of The Two Commandments That Covers all These Old Laws. Jesus Came Into This World & Died On The Cross To Save Men & To Go Back Into This Type Of Thinking Makes His Comming Of No Help To Man, that Our Father In Heaven Sent To Save Many. Please Search The New Scriptures & Allow Your Questions To Be Answered By Our Father In Heaven & Loose the Flesh Person & Be Alive In Spirit. For What You Ask Of The Father It Will Be Given Unto You. May God Bless Mathews 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

23:32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Answer 2

No, God says in The Bible quite specifically that he does not: Deu 24:16 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.

This is repeated just to make certain we get the message:

2Ch 25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die forhis own sin.

This is repeated in the New Testament:

Joh 9:1-3 KJV And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. [v.2] And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? [v. 3] Jesus ed,Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

A particular sin or crime that has been committed is not passed on from one generation to the next.

However, the tendency to commit a particular type of sin or crime is passed on from one generation to the next because it is learned behavior. What is passed on from one generation to the next is the father's attitude toward committing a particular sin and the strong likelihood of passing this learned behavior on to his son (or daughter). For example, if the father is a drunkard his son may be inclined towards Alcoholism. Children learn what is acceptable behavior from their parents, and it is not what they say: it is what they actually do: actions always speak louder than words.

Answer 3

The Bible says that if you sin, your descendants could be punished instead of you. This means that you could be punished by God for a sin committed by your great-grandfather.

Answer:No.

Exodus 20:4-6 - "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."

This, and repeated warnings elsewhere in Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, were specific to a particular trespass (idolatry in the passage above), and note the qualifier: "of those who hate Me."

What of those who DON'T "hate" God?

Jeremiah 31:29, 30 - "In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge.' But every one shall die for his own iniquity; every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge."

Ezekiel 18:20 - "The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."

All sin has consequences. If everyone knows your great-grandfather was a mass murderer and your family is stigmatized as a result, you're suffering from the repercussions of his sins, not being "punished by God" for them.

[Quotes from NKJV]

Answer 4

Yes, and not only the children, but even the third and fourth generations. See Exodus 20:5: "... visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourthgeneration of them that hate me"; Exodus 34:7: "... visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation"; Deuteronomy 5:9. Then, Deuteronomy 23:2 says children unfortunate enough to be born illegitimate will be excluded from the congregation, as will their own offspring for the next ten generations "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD."

Notice that when Ham supposedly "saw the nakedness" of his father, it was Ham's son, Canaan, and all Canaan's descendants who were to be punished.