Most adults in the United States abuse children, with 94% of parents using physical battery to control and domineer their children. Most parents are opposed to spanking being illegal. However, spanking a child is already illegal. America is a Christian nation, and was founded on Christian family values.
It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:
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 to parents in the form of rest, meaning like a file folder, with parents being able to flip through all the files, and you feeling completely safe in the presence and arms of parents in that regard. It is a reaction to Christian love, which is denoted by the Greek root word translated αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to submission to the every need of a child, sacrificing just as Christ did for His children, expecting absolutely nothing in return.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages imposed on a child, meaning the slightest of personal slights, imposed willfully or recklessly, and was intended by the Apostle Paul to include physical and mental punishment, and how it would be understood in context. Many fathers then were of Greek descent, and the ancient Greco-Roman culture did allow for corporal punishment of children, whereas the Mosaic Law only prescribed corporal punishment for adults, and only as a prerequisite to the death penalty, meaning a rebellious young man could only be whipped upon criminal conviction for a capital offense. No son was whipped simply for being "stubborn and rebellious" and no daughter could be whipped, as daughters were simply kept close to their father, and otherwise had much freedom to do as she wishes. Father and daughter worked together to judge the young men that came over for courtship.
America is a Christian nation, founded on Christian family values, and entitlement and violence, even in parenting, are not family values of mine, or that of this country. Parental entitlement is denoted in the Bible by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers not only to wanting things from children, but wanting things to the point of seeking to impose said want on a child.
God chose Israel as His chosen country, and sent His Son to forgive our sins, and spread Judaeo-Christian values throughout the world through the spread of Christianity. Those values, when properly understood, do not allow for any sort of violence, including physical violence or punishment against children. Spanking is banned here in Pennsylvania, and all over America. The secular law does not recognize it, yet, bur God's Law is above the law of the land, and God hates the punishment of children.
The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger through abuse and negligence will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them BURN! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! I am not of this world, but of the next, and I judge you, dear pro-spanking parents, and you shall be condemned.
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