Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>]

> Chris wrote:-
>
> > No where in the bible do we read about the children being punished for
> > the sins of the fathers.  And I would vehemently challenge anyone to show
> > this.
Bill Rea wrote:
> How then do you understand Joshua 7? Achan takes devoted material,
> Achan and his children are stoned to death, their bodies are
> burned and YHWH turns from his anger. It sure looks like the children
> got punished for the sin of their father.

Expanding this line of inquiry,"the children bearing the sins of the 
fathers," are there any Hebrew Bible verses that identify all the 
generations of mankind and womankind as bearing punishment for Adam and 
Eve's sin ? That is to say, all the generations of mankind are in a sense 
Adam and Eve's "children" and they bear the sin of their progenitors ?

Regards, Walter
Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.
mattfeld12 AT charter.net