Why all punishment of children is kidnapping

Many parents are afraid of their child being kidnapped, meaning abducted. This is the most feared child abuse in the country. Most parents do not realize what kidnapping is under Christian law, and that they are, in fact, doing that to their children.

It says in Exodus 21:16 KJV:

And he that stealeth a man, or selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

The underlined part of the passage expands the definition of kidnapping to any offense perceived by the child that involves hostage-taking of any kind, meaning including punishment of any kind. Punishment of a child holds a child hostage in their own home. Kidnapping is a trapped, cornered feeling perceived by the child. Punishment usually comes after a threat that something a child find security in is taken away, holding the child captive in an irrational consequence for their actions, emotionally driven by the urge and drive of the parent to control, in which case all cornering control of a child perceived by the child is kidnapping. The italicized clause of the commandment from God is abolished by Christ's sacrifice on the cross, as with all capital and also corporal punishment, as corporal punishment was a summary punishment for a capital offense, and required a criminal conviction of a repeat offender. Parents in the Old Testament were put down by the method of chenek or hanging up parents with bloodletting, which is now a relic of the past that symbolizes how God feels about punishing children. What punishment is relevant today for all sin is the second death, meaning Hell, which is a logical consequence for refusing to obey God's commands.

The proper way to parent a child is stated in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) secure, warm rest and trust in the love and grace of parents, just as adult believers rest securely in the rest and trust of Jesus Christ. Respect for parents is intense closeness to parents, leading to fondness and admiration later, and then to honor and compliance, with children surrendering to parents by running to them just as adult believers run to Christ, confiding into them and leaning on them just as adult believers lean on Christ. Parenting in ancient Israel and adjoining churches was attachment-based. Children went in the nude in biblical times, and this was the case so that parents could use skin-to-skin contact, with children co-sleeping in the nude with mothers at night until adulthood, and children up to age 3 being seen as infants behaviorally, and breastfed up until age 3 as such. Mothers and daughters were inseparable until adulthood, and that was largely for protective reasons against the natural sexual desires of the father. The daughter was nude, but in a way that the father couldn't get to her.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to "stirring up" upset and resentment in children, as in the Jewish idiom "stirring the pot" in terms of your child's emotions. This ultimately refers to offenses against children, usually in terms of kidnapping, with offenses against children meaning the slightest of offense perceived against a child, including corporal and other forms of punishment. The Apostle Paul was rebuking a group of Greek Christian parents that relied on the Hellenistic tradition of spanking children, which was not part of Judeo-Christian law or traditions, and is not today. Paul also handed out parenting manuals that recommended attachment parenting, namely a specific type where parents taught by example, and imparted the Living Example of Christ onto children, but because only Christ was perfect, parents had to model self-discipline of a selfless sort to children, being giving extensions of Christ in the family home, showing generosity and charity to children so that children knew to treat their neighbor with the same kind respect.

Kidnapping is any hostage taking, and most provocation of children to anger, meaning child abuse, involves cornering intent, meaning hostage-taking intent. The way the commandment against kidnapping was enforced under the Law in both the Old and New Testaments was that kidnapping was grand theft, meaning grand theft linked to hostage-taking intent, with theft meaning any ordinary offense perceived by the person, and this included a child. Parents did punish their children in the biblical context, but only sporadically, and when they were caught, they were put to death, alongside all family members who testified on their behalf.

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!