Bible Discussion Thread

And he said, Cursed be Canaan a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Why did God curse Canaan who was not born yet. Ham did the wrong. God curses some people to the 3rd and 4th Gen. Why don't he punish the one that did the wrong? My Father or Grandfather did wrong and I have to be punished?

If you have noticed, God has done that throughout the history of the bible. I believe he does it so they know not to mess up the same way again so he curses their children and their childrens children.

Because Scriptures teach that his children were in his loins at that time, so his sin affected them, yet there is also hope of redemption in the curse, as God changes the curse to a blessing. Jesus said the servant of them all is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. So in light of that, it is no longer a curse! Good news, glad tidings to you my friend.

stanjett...Hello...God's creation is all created with rules built-in. You can see this with mathematics and science...this also translates into the spirit realm. God put rules of cause and effect into motion. Everything in the spirit realm is run by legal grounds according to the rules or laws So if I, willingly engage in witchcraft-then the penalty is that it WILL affect my bloodline.

Stanjett, good questions. Here is an in-depth look at what occurred between Ham and Noah and why Canaan was cursed: Andrew Unabated podcast, "Ham's Sin Cursed Canaan".

In the Old Testament, God did punish the children for the sins of their fathers. It became a proverb that the elders wrote in the Talmud. However, in Jeremiah 31:29 God changes that practice and says, "In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge." God begins to visit the sins of the individual upon the one who committed them