The Sins of the Fathers?

The world is full of men thinking their foolishness is good when it flies in the face of God's principles.

There is a movement now for whites to apologize to blacks for the sins of their ancestors. This is patently wrong in the eyes of God.

The people who were abused in slavery are long gone, they no longer endure the abuse. If someone was to apologize for the injustice it would need to be the slave owner to the slave 150 years ago.

No one today owned slaves or were slaves in this country. Many of us were not even in families who had slaves or were slaves.

To remain angry at someone for being the same gender or people group because of what other people did who they were unrelated to in the same gender or people group is insanity.

To apologize for the sins of our forefathers would be like a Christian German living today raised in America apologizing to a Jew who never lived in Germany, for the sins of Hitler when he was not related to Hitler in any way nor has even been to Germany in his lifetime. It makes no sense at all to blame someone other than the person who actually did the crime.

Narcissists love to have someone to blame, it doesn't have anything to do with truth, it is just the need of the narcissist to have a scapegoat to blame when they make their own choice to destroy a community.

Anyone would be insensed if the police came to their home and arrested them for the crimes of their dead father. No one would think this makes sense. There is no difference in this than there is in apologizing for someone else's sin that you had no part in over past generations.

It is a form of lying to admit to sins we did not commit. It is also unbiblical. And, I might add "irrational."

Ezekiel 18:19-21 "19 Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of the father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him. 21 But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die."

Rather than using past sins of others to justify a destructive attitude, it would be better to live in the present rather than dwelling on a past that didn't even belong to you. This is akin to those family feuds we hear about where the grandchildren carry on the hatred for a family simply because their grandparents did. They don't even know why they hate the other family they just like doing it because it was tradition. Perhaps it gave them a perverted sense of superiority and purpose, it didn't but they thought so. Pride is senseless and unreasonable. Only fools would act like this.

Leviticus 19:18
"You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord."

Luke 17:1
"And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!"

Yes!!! It is sin to unjustly hold a grudge against someone who never sinned against you and it is sin to demand recompense from someone who never harmed you. It is equally sinful to admit to a sin you never committed. Feelings are no good reason to sin, that's what this is all about, pretending to care deeply about someone by doing things that do not make sense to smooth things over will only enable those who use excuses to indulge their irrational feelings.

The narcissist attempts to blame and accuse others of things they did not do to feel justified in their use of anger to control them. We are to love people in truth, never compromising truth to quell the feelings of those who are continually angry.

Bowing to the angry man only empowers their anger and feeds their rage.

Proverbs 22:24-25 "Do not associate with a man given to anger;
Or go with a hot-tempered man,
25 Or you will learn his ways
And find a snare for yourself."

We are never to violate the Word of God just so someone will be happier with us. And, remember, when we violate God's Word to appease angry people we are enabling them to grow in their hatred. It is hypocrisy and they can see that!