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 providing custody, in terms of the Law, meaning the duty of parents to provide for the every vulnerable need of a child, especially attachment needs, with children resting in such provisions from parents, owing absolutely nothing in relation to parents, yet nonetheless showing gratitude for one's parents' care and love by listening to their voice, not out of fear of punishment, but out of fondness, reassurance, and familiarity felt towards a parent's voice. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to the offenses under biblical law, precisely the anti-entitlement count of parental entitlement leading to dereliction of duties, with the specific moral crime of provocation to anger through fits of anger being mentioned explicitly in the Greek text. The Greek root word translated "parents" is γονεύς (Latin: goneus) and refers to parents as caregivers not top-down authoritarians.
True Christian love has nothing to do with conflating oneself with one's child, but seeing a child as a separate person with individual needs. It is being struck with reverent fear and terror of the needs of a child, knowing then that you have wronged them severely, tarring and charring oneself to oneself in relation to children in the Lord, leading to conviction to surrender to God through one's child, admitting ignorance and capacity to harm, then sacrificing for one's child, taking up the cross for children just as Christ took up the cross for His children, rendering oneself beneath a child in terms of caring for their needs, being smaller than them for being bigger than them, leading to good works just for the sake of doing good things for children, with children being a legal extension of God regarding their needs, being and feeling grateful for impacting a child's life, however small.
Parents are God-ordained caregivers, and that's all parenting is supposed to be. It isn't supposed to be about the rules and laws coming from parents. Children are merely placed in the care of parents, meaning children do not need what parents need, at all. All children have special needs, not just the few of us who had IEPs, meaning every child is an individual, and if I've known just one child, I've known just one child. Every child is different - and none of them deserve domestic violence in the form of spanking.
The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn in 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!
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