#Breaking the sins of the father free#

“Generational curse: I have seen many who were not healed from these diseases even after tons of prayer.

if he is allowed to do as petitioned against you/your family. It is decided on if the claims are valid. “Satan comes before the throne and shows legal rights to attack your body or finances. The whole family pays for the sins that their forefathers committed. One website devoted to generational curse states, “The kingdom of God and darkness operate totally on ‘legal rights.’ Jesus came to confirm the Old Testament, not to erase God’s laws. This procedure involves an elaborate ceremony that consists of listing the sins of one’s ancestors up to four generations, confessing their sins for them, reciting the recommended prayers and declarations, and personally breaking these supposed curses.

#Breaking the sins of the father free#

This additional step is required for a person to be set free from the bondage that holds him captive to the sins of his forefathers. They conclude that Jesus’ blood was shed for the sins of the individual, but an additional step must be taken to remove the guilt a person inherited from his ancestors. Generational curse proponents then take their teaching to its next logical step. Furthermore, Satan has the right to continue to hold legal claim against Christians who have not effectively dealt with their generational curses, resulting in failure, violence, impotence, profanity, obesity, poverty, shame, sickness, grief, fear, and even physical death. As a result, God sees them as guilty, not only for their own sins, but also for their ancestors’ sins as well.

People not only inherit their ancestors’ sin nature (the tendency all have to rebel against God), but they also acquire the accumulated guilt of their ancestors. Those who teach generational curse interpret these verses to mean that a person’s guilt is genetically passed down to all his descendants. to the third and the fourth generations” (KJV). Each of these texts contain the words, “visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children. Most teachers of generational curse base their teaching on some combination of Exodus 20:5,6 34:6,7 Numbers 14:18 and Deuteronomy 5:9,10. The Basis for Generational Curse Teaching Matters of faith (what we believe) and practice (how we live out our lives as Christians) can only be determined by a correct understanding of Scripture. The nature of absolute truth and proper interpretation of Scripture, however, cannot be determined by the number of people who embrace a teaching or by the popularity of those who promote it. In recent years the generational curse teaching has become quite popular in Pentecostal and charismatic circles, and is promoted by some of the most visible leaders in these movements.