God Changes

The reading from the Hebrew Scriptures this morning is Ezekiel 18:5-18. It says that a son shall not be punished for the sins of his father, nor a father for the sins of his son. Aside from the very sexist nature of this idea (mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, mothers and sons are all left out), this directly contradicts Exodus 20:5 (I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of their parents, to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me . . . ). So much for the idea that our God is an unchanging God.