Like many other Christian beliefs, the doctrine of
the Inherited Sin also finds no support in the words of
Jesus or of the prophets who had come before him.
They taught that every man was accountable for his
own action; the children will not be punished for the
sin of the father. For instance, it is written in the
Book of Propheet Jeremiah
"In those days they siall say no more, The athers
have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are
set on edge. But every one shall die for his own iniq-
uity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth
shall be set on edge."2
The Prophet Ezekiel also rejected the dogma of the
original Sin in almost the same words:
The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,
what me. ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the
land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour
grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
----------------------------------- The Bible, Jeremiah, 31:29-30.