Mutual submission: Why parents and children should submit to each other

Many parents believe in children respecting them, and thus demand respect. Most American parents are entitled in the sense that they demand respect without earning it. Under divine law, children are to be respected before anything else. Parents and children are to submit to each other in mutual cooperation and submission, with burden of proof on parents.

Every single parent and adult is guilty in relation to children, and is deserving of DEATH and DESTRUCTION merely for existing in relation to children, with parents being convicted to put their children's needs before their own, prioritizing their child, leading to total submission to the every need of children, and then total acceptance of the child, with children resting in the Christian love of parents, as denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao). Surrender to parents is rest in the unconditional Christian love of parents. See 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 to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Attachment parenting was the norm in ancient Israel and adjoining churches, with children being wrapped up in the swaddling blankets that mothers wore then, with children being weaned, on average, at age 3, or sometimes older. Older children alternated between free play supervised by parents, and closeness with mothers. Children were demanding in biblical times, petitioning for their needs and a redress of grievances with parents, and parents being struck with conviction to provide for the child's every need and benign want.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to provocations to anger, meaning the slightest of offense perceived by the child. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul and the legal context he was writing from to prohibit all punitive parenting, including punitive strategies such as spanking, corporal punishment, or else any punishment or control in parent. Greek Christians were bringing their pagan custom of spanking children into the church. Punishing a child was legally defensible under Roman law, but not under Jewish law. Jewish law regarded punishing a child as kidnapping, with the traditional penalty being bloodletting (chenek) after 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction - the same one mentioned in Proverbs and Hebrews. The passages in Proverbs referring to whipping "children" with the switch, meaning the rod verses are repealed verses, with the children being described there being adult children in the context, meaning the translation is imprecise and misleading. The translation is not the infallible word of God - the original text itself, in Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, is the infallible, unblemished word of God, as understood to the context it was written to, not in terms of any sort of modern understanding.

Child surrender is restful surrender in the loving arms of parents. This happens when parents put themselves last, and their children first, to the point of total surrender and submission to a child. The child then rests in the loving providence of parents, with children then demanding as they all so often do, and parents righteously giving into the demands, giving up the fight, then surrendering to their child's demands, assuming nothing about the child's needs, knowing that age corrupts and that never again will adults be able to understand what it is like to be a child.

America is a Christian nation, founded on Judeo-Christian family values. The doctrine of mutual submission is the core of how a Christian society should function. We as neighbors monitor each other, check up on each other, and within family homes, provide for our wives and children, not being entitled towards one's family at all, including one's children.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger 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! Let them descend into everlasting Hell and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!