Generational Curses vs Personal Resposibility
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You appear to be overlooking the fact that each of those scriptures have reference to worshipping either God or gods. As you accurately espoused in both Deuteronomy and Ezekiel We are responsible for our own decisions.
where the association of the parents sin and the children's sin connect is in the continuation of false worship. As long as worship of false gods is perpetuated among decedents, God will continue to hold each generation guilty. But the father will not be held guilty if the son after being properly taught decides to follow false gods, nor will the son who returns to worship of the one true God be held responsible for the fathers worship of false gods.
This is the concept of free will in which God will honor our choices whether good or evil.
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Each passage was written for its times and its own purpose.
The threats of intergenerational accountability (Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:9) were written to make the Jews really think about the consequences of worshipping other gods - they might not have been worried about their own fate, but what about their children and grandchildren?
Ezekiel wrote at a time when Babylon was swallowing up Judah and he was aware of the despair and fatalistic loss of hope felt by his compatriots. As long as they believed that they were being punished for the sins of their forebears, the Jews had no reason for hope or (importantly for Ezekiel) for following him in the worship of Yahweh. Daniel I. Block (The Book of Ezekiel: Chapters 1–24) says [(b) The Answer (18:19-20)] his rejection of any deterministic notion of intergenerational accountability was a response to this. By declaring that a person’s righteousness and wickedness will be credited to that person’s account only, Ezekiel slams the door on the old fatalistic illusion.
Deuteronomy 24:16 is subtly different. This does not talk about whether God will punish children for the sins of their fathers, but is a commandment to the Jews, that they should not do so:
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.
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