Spanking and corporal punishment - and why it violates the natural laws guiding child protection in America

In over 60 countries worldwide, spanking is illegal under the secular law, including European countries such as Sweden and Iceland, as well as much of continental Europe and the bulk of Latin American countries. Most people, and most churches, don't know that spanking and all corporal punishment is banned under the natural law of the United States.

We are ever-so evolving as a nation with our understanding of Christian natural law, by way of understanding the biblical context with once merely remote redemptive theologies on things such as slavery and Jim Crow, which are now mainstream anti-slavery doctrine. Natural law in the United States does forbid corporal punishment, as the Bible forbids it as well.

Natural law is what God thinks is right and just, meaning in this case the mutual submission between children and parents, with parents respecting children first. It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your children in everything, 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 running to them, being able to be themselves in relation to parents, being able to confide into parents about everything, owing parents absolutely nothing in return, yet nonetheless being grateful for children heeding the voice of parents, not out of fear of punishment, but out of familiar comfort and reassurance, like a gentle tug or pull. This comes from a different kind of surrender from parents, meaning being convicted by God to break one's own will to abuse a child, giving up the fight, leading to surrender to God through one's own child, sacrificing for one's child just as Christ sacrificed for His children, taking up the cross for them, rendering oneself beneath one's children, devaluing oneself to the role of mere servant and caregiver, attendant to a child's every need, leading to good works just for the sake of doing good for children, and gratitude of such, expecting absolutely nothing in return. 

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to "stirring up" children, which refers to stirring the pot in terms of their emotions by harsh treatment. This ultimately refers to the offenses in the legal context of the Bible, meaning the slightest of offense perceived by the child, coming from the entitled behavior of adults. with entitlement being referred to by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and referring to the entitled attitude of "I am the parent, and I have the right to discipline my child as I see fit" leading to wanting things from children, or wanting them to listen to your directions, to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child, therefore leading to visible controlling, punitive, harassing, or sexually objectifying or hateful attitudes, and then to an offense as perceived by the child. This means any slight menace or look that offends the child, and is intended to control in some way, is abuse, meaning if the child perceives another tug, a heavy, controlling one that strangulates them of air. The Greek root word translated "they become discouraged" is αθυμέω (Latin: athumeo) and refers to the long-term harm of spanking, mainly through damages in retrospect, namely a clinical diagnosis of PTSD or another anxiety disorder.

The Apostle Paul, in this passage, was cracking down on corporal punishment in the Colossian church, affirming the fact that Jewish last considered such behavior towards children to be kidnapping, thus in spirit a capital offense by way of hanging by way of bloodletting on the last day. In the Early Church, child abuse was considered a collective offense with individual guilt, meaning they were removed on the last day, meaning excommunicated and disfellowshipped for punishing their child. The death penalty was not practiced for parents or anyone, but was emphasized to show the severity of the moral crime to the abusive parents on their way out. 

The Early Church was completely anti-spanking until the 3rd Century, when Constantine took over the Christian church, then pandering to the pagan cultures of Europe. The Romans were brutal to children, and women too, and both were property of the father under patria potestas, which is an idolatrous teaching and excuse for domestic abuse against a man's family. Corporal punishment, as a teaching, is Catholic infiltration within God's Church, promoting pagan customs of spanking of girls and whipping of boys within Hellenistic culture, in order to either correct misbehavior and/or correct "unchaste" behavior in girls. These customs are not Hebraic in origin, and since they aren't, they don't belong in the Christian faith.

The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! They instead will be cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! God's Law is above the law of the land, and thus any punishment or control of children will be repaid by the Lord on behalf of children on the last day.