What is love for a child?

Many parents think they love their children, but do they really? We all as adults hate children in some way, some form, including even the parents of children. Few adults love children to God's standard, and the rest will be destroyed on the last day, meaning marked for deletion. True love for a child is not easy. It isn't an emotion or hormone, but acts of kindness or service, just for the sake of such. Giving to children without receiving.

It says in Matthew 25:35-40 KJV:

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment of the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang the law and the prophets.

The Greek root word translated "love" is αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to surrendering to God through your child in this context. You child is considered an extension of God. "Thyself" is translated by the Greek root word σεσυτου (Latin: seastou) and refers implicitly, yet explicitly in context, to the body of mankind being made in the image of God. Christ is using a self-centered example to basically state that mankind, meaning the other person in relation to the self, is an extension of God, thus when you offend your neighbor, you offend God. God usually speaks in the Bible in selfish examples when discussing His presumed existence in all mankind. This was not on an equal plane, meaning children were the most vulnerable.

Agape love is surrender to God through your child, placing your adult and control at the child's footstool, sacrificing for your child just as Christ sacrificed for His children, rendering oneself beneath the child, devaluing oneself as their servant or caregiver, leading to good works committed towards them in terms of needs and benign wants, just for the sake of doing good things and being charitable to children, expecting absolutely nothing in return...This is something to strive for in a child hating society.

It says later in Matthew, in vs. 25:45-46 KJV:

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of these, ye did it not unto me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

This refer implicitly to children. In the verses before, the groups listed were simply example pointing to the ultimate vulnerable group in ancient Jewish society - children. Children were seen as lowly people, yet people nonetheless, that were in the care of their parents, and otherwise were seen as a group of people to complain about, until Christ set everything straight. It says in Matthew 19:14 KJV:

But Jesus said, Suffer Little Children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

The context is that children were running around in the temple, and the high priest forbade the children from jumping on Jesus and climbing all over him, and Christ is saying all is cool, which was rare of any religious leader then. Parents then were very generous then, in a servile way, but were one to caution children not to stray too far, because "the world won't understand". Religious leaders then were high and proud, in a pious way, and usually in a monastic way. No way would they be at a child's level. Christ was at a child's level. Children's rights were basically understood in Christ's Jewish society, but not entirely at a societal level. Parental warmth was very individualistic in nature, meaning nobody understood how one could be patient with a child other than one's own, while singling out those that were either your own or in your extended family.

True child acceptance wasn't perfected until the Early Church came about, which focused heavily, especially in men, on emulating Christ in everything. Christ elevated the status of children by His sacrifice for us as Christians and as a Judaeo-Christian society. We are to sacrifice, and take up the cross, for children as parents and adults, just as Christ did, from beneath children, devaluing yourself as such, surrendering all your power and glory as an adult to their footstool, then from there on out treating children as royalty, just as Christ would treat a child. 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 another type of surrender in response to love from parents - running to parents with your emotions and needs, sharing everything with them, using them as a close confidant and seeing them as your best friend, leading to hearing the voice of parents, understanding what they ask for in a developmentally appropriate way, leading to responding to instructions from parents by following their reassuring, gentle voice in a familiar manner, imprinting on a loving parent's voice. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and literally translates to "stir up" children, referring, in context, to the offenses under the Eighth Commandment, meaning in the New Testament the slightest of offense perceived by the child concerning entitled adult behavior, meaning sensory gaslighting. The offenses refer to torts and damages under the Mosaic Law, including assault and battery laws against children, which are included in the synopsis of the offenses after Christ. A mother could divorce her husband, meaning the father of the child, in the Early Church if her child was offended by as much as the slightest of touch from a fathers. Spanking was seen as a Greco-Roman pagan concept to purge out, yet the Roman Catholic Church promoted spanking as a form of "shamrock" gaslighting is, meaning pagan societies could keep some of their customs as long as they accepted Christ as Lord.

Attachment parenting was the normative parenting in ancient Israel and adjoining cultures, and children ran to their parents, and were held close to parents as old as age 3 in most cases, sometimes even older, by way of being swaddled next to mothers, using skin-to-skin contact to form a bond with a child, and co-sleeping with mothers later in childhood, with daughters not ever leaving her side until adulthood.

The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! They will be cast forever 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!