What is love for your child?

Many people may notice the lack of the use of the word "love" in my posts. Many gentle parenting websites do often use the word, as they are more progressive in theological/ideological orientation. Other pages, like mine, rarely ever use that word. Why? It should be implied. It is a verb, not an impulse of affection.

It says in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 KJV:

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; not vaunteth itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked; rejoice not in inequity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all thing, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether they be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

The Greek root word translated "charity" refers to Christian love for one's child, and is denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to a certain form of submission for one's child, namely out of sacrifice, just as Christ sacrificed for His children, giving Himself up while expecting nothing in return, and parents accordingly. Parenting isn't an position of authority over children, but is a position of servitude towards children, with parents beholden to the child and her every need. Love is a verb, an action, meaning good will that leads to good deeds towards a child, being rewarded by seeing the child have her every vulnerable need met, expecting absolutely nothing in return.

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 secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace, with the child being able to confide anything into parents, including issues that most people wouldn't understand, owing nothing in return to parents. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and literally translates to "stir up", and is one of the Greek words in the New Testament referring to the offenses, meaning torts and damages under the Mosaic Law, which are summed up for gentile believers in the New Testament as the slightest of personal slights perceived by the child. In this case, you don't love your child, and never did. Then, once you make amends with your child, you always did love them from the very beginning, as God foreknew that reconciliation.

Punishment of children was illegal under Jewish law in both the Old and New Testaments, and was considered kidnapping (note "in his hand" in Exod. 21:16 - this meant any sort of blackmail to the Early Christians), and was a capital offense in the Old Testament. The Early Church abolished capital punishment, but shunned child abusers of all types who provoked children to anger. The Apostle Paul, in vs. 21, is warning certain Greek fathers about the use of punitive tactics, saying that whatever you do to your child in that context is what the child will mirror back to the parent. Parenting in the ancient Hebrew culture was attachment-based, meaning young children remained close to their parents until late in childhood, with co-sleeping being the norm in that culture. Punishment of any kind of a child was not the Jewish norm then, as punishment could only be imposed within a judicial setting, whereas children were protected by a defense of infancy. The teaching of "biblical spanking" stems not from the Hebraic context, but from idolatrous and pagan Greco-Roman legal principles such as patria potestas that lead to the legal construct of "reasonable chastisement" in the English common law. 

The spanking teaching is Catholic encroachment in terms of pro-spanking idolatry, in which case we need to purify God's Church by purging it of the evil that is parental entitlement. All child abuse stems from parental entitlement, in some way, in some form.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God, and will be tormented for ever and ever in the lake of fire and brimstone! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!