IS THE GENERATION-CURSE THEORY SCRIPTURAL?
Most generation-curse teachers start their scriptural basis with Exodus 20:5,6. To prove their point, they make iniquity a specialized category of transgression. God said, “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them (images), nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments” (emphasis mine). Is iniquity a unique sin? Generation-curse advocates arbitrarily treat the term iniquity as a synonym for generation curse, implying that iniquity is a unique sin. They believe persons can come under a curse for which they are not responsible; they inherited it. Generation-curse teachers base much of their argument on the use of the term iniquity, making it a special kind of sin. They also teach that if a person repeatedly commits a sin, it becomes an iniquity that can be passed down through his or her
