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Re: Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?
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Originally Posted by Aquila
Many believe that God will judge nations. Many say that God will judge America for abortion and gay marriage. If that is true, why would God not judge America for one of the most brutal and inhumane system of slavery, genocide, unjustified wars, the slaughter of innocents, greed, corruption, usury, racism, oppression, and serial polygamy?
Most of these are sins are essentially the sins of other people and previous generations come to fruition, are they not?
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But the country no longer does those things.
2 Chronicles 7:14 is a prayer of national repentance for the people of Israel. Does God still keep you accountable for your past sins once you have repented? No, so same as any country who will modify their behavior and end slavery. We have no more slavery. Have you ever owned a slave? I haven't, don't know anyone who has. Do you know anyone who was a slave on a plantation? The answer is no. Therefore that is an issue which the people who died and went on to judgement need to deal with. Not you, and not me.
If your ancestor was a pirate would he have worn a kilt as he swung over to the ship he was attacking? Would you be held accountable for his lack of modesty? 
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"all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
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