However, Scripture points out that sin is interpersonal in many ways. Paul describes this in the broadest sense when he writes: “sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin” (Rom 5:12). Elsewhere the proverb echoes, “the fathers eat sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge” (e.g., Ezek 18:2). Observation in our own world reveals how alcoholism, child abuse, divorce, and many other tragedies seem to be passed on from generation to generation, in many cases, oddly, by those