Children self-protect, adults abstain: Policing attachment in the Bible

Many parents believe that they have the right to order around their child and basically police them. This is a common attitude in parents in this country, and it is based in false and abusive doctrine that punishing children is acceptable and commanded by God. The fact of the matter is that children are the police over their parents, and this is the form of secure attachment endorsed by the Bible.

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/adults being meek and shamefaced in relation to children. Parents especially are to put children first, and themselves last, to the point of submission to the every need of children, expecting absolutely nothing in relation to them, showering them in unconditional Christian love, meaning Agape love denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao). Children should be allowed to rest and find respite in the love and grace 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 nor 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 biblical times, with policing attachment being the normative form of secure attachment. Children demanded their needs and enforced their limits on parents, giving and issuing orders as to what they needed, and parents hearkening to said orders. Children were wrapped up next to the bosom of mothers, held close to her in swaddling blankets, with children being weaned at the late age of 3, and being held in constant closeness until even older - age 6. Children started being instructed in Scripture once they turned 6 in the Early Christian church communities. Children went completely in the nude in both the Old and New Testaments, with children being snuggled next to mothers in skin-to-skin closeness, with children's cries being legal orders as to what they needed, and with these legal orders being binding in nature, in fact.

Children have the right to perceive offense under biblical law, but are not culpable for offenses they commit. The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to provocations to anger imposed on children, referencing the commandment in both Christianity and Judaism to love your neighbor and not to provoke them to anger, with "provocation to anger" defined as the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of unwanted touch when perceived by a child. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul and the surrounding legal context as prohibiting any punishment and control in parent-child relationships, including spanking and corporal punishment. Paul here was rebuking Greek Christians for misusing the book of Proverbs to justify their pagan purification ritual of spanking children. The seven verses in Proverbs that depict the rod of correction are repealed verses, as they reference a dated form of judicial corporal punishment culturally and legally unique to the Old Testament - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, which was a summary penalty before being put to death for a capital offense, after many warnings beforehand. This was a punishment solely for ADULT children of Hebrew parents, after adjudication in a criminal court of law, and a conviction of a criminal offense.

"Children self-protect" is an acronym we use in children's rights that calls for us as adults to allow for children to be assertive to us. Policing attachment was the norm in biblical times. Think a child outstretching a stophand to a parent, demanding their needs, and demanding the respect they deserve as children. Children in ancient Israel and adjoining churches ordered their parents around, and parents gave in and gave up the fight with their children, being plowed over by their child's needs, with parents merely crying when they felt disrespected. This context applies today, to the degree that it can be applied. Parents should allow themselves to cry when their child talks back to them or is mean to them, right in front of the children, as children never take advantage of a parent's tears. Children aren't sadists like many adults are towards them.

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! Let them descend into the Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!