Consequences on future generations
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Physically and mentally the sins of the fathers may be visited upon children (but not as original sin)[edit]
"...the word generation has a different meaning in different places. Christ referred to the Christ Dispensation, or cycle, and the other refers to the physical generation.
"For example, if a man does a great injustice to another in his life, then, after his death, his son will be despised for having had such a father and in some cases the injury might be so serious that the effect would reach to the grandson, etc., or a man may, by wrong living, fall into consumption and give that disease to his children unto the third or fourth generation.
"Both physically and mentally the sins of the fathers may be visited upon the children."
- (Abdu'l-Bahá: Daily Lessons Received at Akka, 1979 ed., pp. 45-46; in Lights of Guidance, no. 1717)
