Many parents think that they can make children do things, and order them around like slaves. Most children in this country live in servile conditions in relation to their parents. Within the parent population, there seems to be a collective individual God complex, meaning most parents think they are God in some way. I am not God, so I cannot make a child do anything.
The Greek root word denoting entitlement is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to entitled want, meaning wanting things from children to the point of seeking to impose said want onto a child, leading to abuse by way of offense perceived. Making a child do something is entitlement on the part of the parent, meaning children do as they will. Ask, and you shall receive, but demand and control, and you shall be damned.
Children make their parents do things instead. 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 be discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to closeness leading to respect, but of the policing and enforced variety, meaning children had Divine Authority to enforce their needs onto parents, making their parents either meet their needs or go bust, because they were your children then, and you didn't question it when they need something. Parents were the filter for the child's demands, letting in most of them, but denying the most whimsical and unrealistic of them, otherwise finding a way to make it work. Parents in biblical times were servants towards the parents, of the attachment parenting variety, meaning children up to age 3 were treated like infants, and breastfed as such. Children co-slept next to mothers right up until adulthood, staying within close range to their mother, then shaking off the closeness to parents come adulthood, seeking independence. Independence was a virtue in children, far more than obedience, which was seen as slavish in blind format. The ancient Jews were independent thinkers, in an individualistic way, with every man for himself in relation to God, even in the Early Church to a large degree, meaning submission was across, between neighbors, with children being considered your neighbor then in the most precious, convicting sense.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to offenses against children, meaning the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, which included then corporal punishment and other forms of punishment or harshness towards children, as a provocation to anger in the Bible refers to, under the Law, to any offense perceived by the child. The Apostle Paul here was admonishing entitled parents of Hellenistic origin who were culturally inclined to punish and control their children. Paul would have none of it in the churches he oversaw as a deacon. The Apostle Paul was a menacing figure, and one to put the pressure on congregants in church communities across the Roman Empire and elsewhere, yet he opposed spanking and punishment of children very adamantly, like most all Jewish men of his time did. Making children do things was not the Christian thing to do. The norm in Christian churches in the 1st Century was to impart the Living Example of Christ, meaning parents should be their child's first role model.
Instead of making children do things, ask and you shall receive, if they trust your example as an extension of Christ to children. Demand things from children, and you get nothing but argument. "I make them" or "I will make you" are entitled statements of parents. Children respect parents who are not demanding, and allow for demands from children. It is a warm, soothing gratitude for parents that makes you want to listen to them, not despite their anti-punishment stance, but for it. I am grateful to have the mother I have caring for me. She is not the most perfect of parents, but where are all the perfect parents? Parents can strive for perfection, but they won't get there in this world. But, parents must strive for some standard of perfection even if they won't get there.
The depraved and entitled parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn and be tormented for ever and ever in the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death, which is Satan's final resting place! Let them descend forever into the Hell of fire and torment, with God ever so angry at the evildoing parents and adults who abuse children! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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