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Question: They say, "Do not sin, or up to seven generations of your progeny will be cursed or punished." Is this punishment physical, emotional or spiritual?

Comment: Because all people are "sinners" (whether they recognize this or not), you need only look around to see the fruits of sinfulness. However, the most terrible sin is sacrilege, which is insisting that the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and one God is not omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and one. Every time you ask God for help and tell Him "I am all alone, and you are not here to help me," you are committing a sin, denying His omnipresence. Every time you pray, "Give me this, give me that," you commit a sin, doubting His intimate knowledge of your problems and His timely care for you, denying His omniscience. Every time you demand a miracle, you commit a sin, denying His omnipotence. Most importantly, every time that you "love" someone "more" than others, when you think some people are your own and others are strangers and do not see that they are just different expressions of one God, you commit a sin--you divide one God into parts.

For these sins, human beings pay via three limitations or punishments:

1. Physical limitation--our body suffers, becomes sick and dies; we cannot be in several places at once; we cannot instantaneously move from one place to another.
2. Emotional limitation--we suffer emotional instability and blindness: mania and apathy, infatuation with and blind pursuit of the toys of this world.
3. Spiritual limitation--we do not know about God, think that there is a difference between Him and us (spiritual split). And therefore, we suffer spiritual longing or melancholy, which is not curable by any means but a spiritual path.

The most terrible sin is allowing intellect to rule in a place where it’s not appropriate. (The intellect is a bad ruler but a good follower.) One of the "punishments" for this terrible mistake is the presence of the very idea of sin and punishment in that very intellect. How nice will it be when all these limited ideologies/dogmas of the bygone years will get lost in the history books! Then human beings will breathe free for the first time.

-- Anatole
(Translated from Russian)