What does God warn will happen to sinful traits from generation to generation?
God warns that sinful traits will continue through human nature from one generation to the next. They will take off down the line generation after generation, just as alcoholism often appears generation after generation. Scripture taught this fifteen hundred years before Christ, not as a new discovery.
Les explains that this is what God is warning: because of human nature, these sinful traits will take off down the line generation after generation. He points to alcoholism as an example, where it can be seen generation after generation after generation. Until the power of a sovereign God comes into a life, the whole human makeup operates this way. Society is in the shape it is because people have pushed God out of their thinking, schools, and home, and then decry the resulting things. Les emphasizes that Scripture said this 1,500 years before Christ; it is not merely a modern medical discovery.