Are we to repent for our ancestors past sins?

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Originally Posted by Aquila

In one sense that is very true.

However, in another sense, one could ask, how many "sins" are not entirely your own?

For example, if you were raised in a household that was prone to gluttony and overeating, have you continued in that sin? If so, the behaviors of your parents, grandparents, and/or great grandparents have shaped your behaviors, and so, they are not entirely your own. Have you acknowledged that it is more than a personal sin, accepting that it is a sin that has been perpetuated down through your generations? Have you taken it before God and forgiven your ancestors of the sins that they may have introduced to your life? Some believe that spirits often follow families for generations, encouraging, tempting, and pushing to see a given sin perpetuated. Have these spirits been addressed?

Perversion, alcoholism, womanizing, drug abuse, divorce, etc. are all sins that seem to run in families. Once one's personal sins are repented of, it can be cathartic to take the sin's of the family that have been perpetuated down through generations before God and pray that they end with you. Think of the generations that will come after you. Will they pick up where you left off or where grandfather or great grandfather left off? Have these sins been identified for future generations to take special care not to repeat?

It isn't so much about confessing and repenting of another's sins... it is about breaking a cycle that often leaves broken dreams and shattered lives in its wake.

Hmmmm, breaking the cycle.
That is what happened in Acts chapter 2, I believe.
And I do not see them worried about repenting for anyone's sins but their own.