Children, obey your parents in all things, as is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to surrender in reaction to the surrender of parents to the servitude towards their child that is parenting. This ultimately refers to secure attachment. Attachment theory can be used to understand biblical submission to parents, with secure attachment constituting self-restraint and self-discipline leading to a shelter and pro-social range/corral. Parents ranged their children next to them, with boys up to age 6 staying close to their mother, and girls up until age 12. Punishment of any child was not allowed, with the Greek root word denoting damages is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to short-term legal damages such as pain, shame, defamation of character, and fornication, coming from a controlling and entitled attitude.
Punishment could only be imposed on another person within the realm of a court of law, and no individual could be charged with a crime unless they were over the age of majority, meaning 13 for males, and 12 for females, and only with the presumption of innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. Col. 3:21 repeals the parent protection laws, and replaces them with child empowerment laws. Anything that the child perceives as abusive, viscerally, meaning anything that the child perceives as offensive, alarming, affronting, insulting, or hateful/defamatory, is abuse. Basically, a child can perceive anything a parent says or does to be abuse, and the law here in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and nationwide, should reflect that...Parents are only allowed, by divine law, to notify the authorities when a law is violated and/or the adult child is the aggressor. Otherwise, with minor children, giving up said child to foster care or adoption are option.
Let the depraved and entitled parents BURN! Let them suffer the second death, and let them languish in the lake of fire and brimstone! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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