Can you say, “inherit the sins of your father?”
that’s exactly what i was thinking of when i posted this, but then I looked up Ezekiel 18 and change my mind in saying anything.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=4&chapter=5
It makes sense that learned behavior might be passed to your offspring. All animals (and people) have instinctive behavior patterns that help them survive. If learned behavior could be passed to the offspring, this would be a huge advantage over waiting for blind chance to do the job.
I thought that was a default if one believes in inherited sin.
Or only when one is conceived via the parents’ sinning?
/sarc
I wrote a story of this same title, with the main character helping rebuild a post-apocalypse world as a terraformer (for Earth). The father who was thought dead, having been one of the architects of the disaster, supposedly defects to the daughter’s region. Nicer place to be, as it’s starting to live again. Makes main character’s life a very big problem, given her position and his, before his untimely death. Yet she has to live with the sins of her father, both in stigma and real world resonance.
LOL, that’s what I was thinking.