Pro-social deification, pro-social child worship: Why child worship is a biblical concept

Many parents believe that they should be honored and admired by their children, and think parents in biblical times were authoritarian, referring to parents as extensions of God in their pro-spanking advocacy. The fact of the matter is that ancient Israel and adjoining churches were child worshipping societies.

Christ said in Matthew 25:45-46 KJV:

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

This refers to pro-social child worship. Children in ancient Hebrew culture, including the Early Church, were seen as extensions of God in the family home, laying down Marshal law that was their needs. Children were seen as holy, including in their demands and orders, as they were the most vulnerable members of Judeo-Christian society then. Children today are to be treated the same way. When you fully accept children, you fully submit to them, fearing them with God's reverent fear, which convicts you to submit to them dutifully, giving them everything they need and a lot of what they want, being their friend like one would with God likewise. Children are a friend you serve as a master, just as one would God. 

It says 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 to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to trust in parents. Replace "obey" and "trust" and you come to a roughly better translation. However, this trust is one that is borne out of maternal warmth and sustenance. This form of trust lead to openness and honesty towards parents, with children being seen as extensions of God by Hebrew fathers and mothers, issuing orders as to what they need, and parents were to serve the orders no matter what. Children felt safe demanding things from children, and the demands from children were seen as signs of God, meaning appeasing the every need of children was seen as akin to appeasing God. Children went in the nude in biblical times, and that was so mothers could nourish their children in skin-to-skin closeness, with children up to age 3 being treated as infants and breastfed as such. Ancient Hebrew culture, including Early Christian culture, was attachment parenting culture. Christians in Ancient Greco-Roman culture were seen as "soft" or "indulgent" with their children.

To disobey or dishonor the needs of children is to dishonor the needs of God from mankind. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to provocations to anger, meaning any and all offenses against children, with "offense" being defined as the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child. This included, by the intent of the inspired pen of the Apostle Paul, any form of punishment or control in parenting, including things such as spanking and other forms of corporal punishment of children. The Apostle Paul was admonishing Greek Christian parents who supported the Hellenistic tradition of spanking children. Punishment of a child was accepted and defensible under Roman law, but not Jewish law. Corporal punishment in the Bible only existed in the Old Testament, and only could be used on ADULT children, as a sentence for crime. It was administered in a courtroom, not a family home. Corporal punishment was strongly linked to the death penalty under Jewish law, and was a last warning for an offender before being put to death. Minor children could not be charged with a criminal act or a civil wrong. The parent protection laws were rarely, if ever, invoked by the religious authorities who oversaw investigations and appointed fathers as accessories to oversee the investigation of their adult child, which involved many warnings before the whipping. Most offenses prosecuted in the Old Testament involved either crimes against children or crimes against the state. Christ suffered on the cross so that capital and corporal punishments of all kinds can be abolished.

Ancient Israel and adjoining churches were child worshipping societies. Pro-social child worshp is far from praying to your child or lighting votive candles on an altar for the child. It is a very deep, reverent form of respect for a child where the child is the altar to God, meaning whatever you do to meet a child's needs and benign wants, you do for God likewise (Matt. 25:31-46). When you worship your child, their very needs strike reverent fear and terror into you, and you show reverent caution towards their needs and emotions, imagining children asserting themselves with a stophand. You fear God through your child. You obey God through your child. Children become extensions of God on earth, laying down the law that is their needs. I, as an adult, am afraid of a child, meaning afraid of invalidating their needs or emotions, so I approach children cautiously, asking more questions and not assuming their needs. I assume to know nothing about any child apart from the information I have on them, asking questions and assuming nothing about their identity or worldview. I worship children, figuratively and not literally, with children being the "least of these" that God appears in. I often, when a child is crying in a public place, feel some tendency or urge to do something about it, such as console or reasssure the child.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven! 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 the abyss that is Hell and torment, enduring God's wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!