Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

Aquila -- "let's imagine" your great, great grandfather was a merciless pirate who raped and pillaged up and down the West Indies.

Why are you responsible for what that scourge of the seven seas did?

What? That's not what's being said.

We're talking about the sins of the fathers that have been perpetuated down through generations. Taking it to God as high priests of our family lines and repenting of it, because it offended God. And in the Scriptures, God repeatedly visits the sins of the fathers on the current generation. And so, we bring it to Him, confess it and repent of it, ending any perpetuated action that remains on account of ancestral influences. Redeeming the family name, and setting any outstanding wrongs right.