A Question to Consider:
Should someone ever be punished or rewarded for the actions of another?
Q: In athletic events, if one player does something wrong (i.e. misses an easy fly ball), is it fair for his whole team to be punished for it (i.e. lose the game)?
The whole point of being part of a team is that you work together to win together...just like a family does :] So, yes. The whole team should lose because of one persons mistakes.
Q:If a child robbed a store, what would our culture say about send the parents of that thieving child to jail?
Honestly, I do believe that people in America would, maybe not ask for the parents to go to jail, but they would sew them. We are a "sew happy nation" and it's pretty much the same thing; having the parent pay for the child's faults. The only thing that's different in these situations is that one has to do with a game and the other has to do with personal sin.
Q: Why does our culture act differently in these circumstances? Is this biblical?
Our culture acts differently to these circumstances because they are different. One issue has nothing to do with sin, it's just a game. But the other (thieving child) has to do with personal sin.
