Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

1) No we do not have any responsibility to right the wrongs done by dead ancestors.

2) No we are not implicated in any sin for not doing so.

Then why oppose legal abortion? Wasn't that a sin of the past generation, producing a wrong many believe prohibition would make right? Even Christians who do not oppose "legal abortion" support measures to help women in unplanned pregnancies and provide more options to choose life, thereby reducing the abortion rate.

Also, you just contradicted yourself...

Being "implicated" in sin would affect salvation. But I'm sure you're going to 'splain that away and say it's multifaceted or what have you.

Heaven is a rather dynamic place, it isn't a communist eternity wherein we're all equal before Christ for eternity. There will be various measures of blessing and reward in the New Earth based on one's Christian walk. To be implicated in the sins of our ancestors will bring shame and loss of reward, not damnation. For it wasn't originally our sin.

Do you believe that a Christian should oppose discrimination? Most do. For a Christian to not oppose discrimination would be to be acquiescing to the sin of racial of injustice. And thereby, such a Christian would be implicated in the sin. You're supposing such a Christian would be condemned to Hell. I'm saying they will face shame before our Lord and loss of reward, yet they will be saved, yet so as by fire.

So, in my position, it isn't a contradiction. It is only a contradiction if I held your understanding. That's why it appears as being a contradiction... to you.

Failing to right wrong perpetuated by the sin of our ancestors may not cause one the loss of their salvation, but not acting to right the wrongs of our ancestor's sin could bring shame and loss of reward in eternity.