“God Curses People Because of the Sins Their Parents and Grandparents Committed.”

The second commandment and several other passages in the Bible really do say that:

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, Exodus 20:5

But God in his mercy and grace didn’t leave us there!  Even as far back as Ezekiel’s time, God stopped passing the blame through the generations!

“Yet you ask, ‘Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?  Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live.  The soul who sins is the one who will die.  The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son.”  Ezekiel 18:19-20

This entire chapter is clearly about individuals not bearing any guilt but their own—even in Ezekiel’s time. Then Jesus sealed it when he bore the curse of sin and death including the generational curse for us.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.” Galatians 3:13

Hallelujah!  Jesus has already done it!!!  We who follow Jesus are no longer under the Law!  Each person is only responsible to repent for his or her own sins and Jesus’ death and resurrection have won us forgiveness!  We don’t need any rituals to “break off” such curses; the New Testament never even suggests such a thing!  Even in the Old Testament, God had Ezekiel rebuke the Israelites for saying such a thing.