Pro-social deification, pro-social child worship: Why this form of dealing with children is biblical

Many parents think biblical times were harsh for children, in terms of punishment. Most parents in America believe biblical times were harsh, and associate the biblical context with corporal punishment of children completely. Children were next to God on earth in biblical times. Ancient Israel and the Early Church were both child worshipping societies. 

Jesus Christ stated in Matthew 25:45-46 KJV:

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

This refers, in this context, to pro-social child worship. Children are among the "least of these", and thus are extensions of God. Children were seen as vulnerable yet convicting in biblical times, striking reverent terror and fear into the hearts of sinful parents. The concept was that if you wronged or abused a child, you wronged or abused God, and that means child abuse is blasphemy.

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 prioritize their children first, and themselves last, to the point of submission to their child and his/her every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the love and grace of parents, with children being in place of God. 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 biblical times. Think a mother holding pales of water, with her young child being wrapped up in swaddling blankets, and an older child in the nude, in tow next to her mother, with the mother gathering water to cook food for dinner. This was how parenting was in biblical times. Children went in the nude to show their vulnerability, as nudity meant vulnerability in ancient Hebrew and Christian cultures, and vulnerability was seen as convicting then, hence why children were seen as next to God.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages, meaning the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or contact. The commandment to not provoke your child to anger is the commandment to love your neighbor stated in the negative, with children being your neighbor. The Apostle Paul intended this commandment to prohibit all punishment and control in parenting, lifting up the Law on kidnapping. Traditionally, under Jewish law, penalties for punishing your child were severe, meaning death by bloodletting, meaning entitled parents were hung like poultry, in the Old Testament. The rod verses in Proverbs and Hebrews refer to a dated legal punishment - the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction, as a last warning before being put to death. Hebrews refers to it figuratively to describe enduring hardship. Only ADULT children could be whipped. Minor children could not be charged with any criminal act or civil wrong, as children were deemed too incompetent legally to stand trial.

Children were seen as next to God in ancient Israel and adjoining churches, meaning such societies were child worshipping societies. Children were extensions of God in the family home, meaning their needs were seen as signs of God, with children being vulnerable yet convicting, striking reverent fear and terror into parents and adults. Children had much say in the day-to-day, and also major decisions of adults, and one child's immature fear attached to a house might prompt parents to move to a new house, just to please their child. Children were seen as issuing orders and demands in the form of policing attachment, with the goal of parenting being to please and appease your child so they don't run you aground. Children were seen as the police over their own needs, and parents surrendered to the stophand of their children, with parents shaking and quaking in reverence for their child's asserted needs and redress of grievances. 

The Greek root word to describe the fear of children felt by parents is ψοβός (Latin: phobos) and refers to reverent fear, or fear that strikes the believer into action, usually in the form of convicting reverence. Parents in ancient Hebrew and Christian cultures held reverence for their children, seeing them as extensions of God. Reverent fear is different than guilty fear. Guilty fear makes you want to hide your mistakes and misdeeds, whereas reverent fear makes you own up to misdeeds and mistakes, and admit to flaws and mistakes openly. 

Fathers usually had passive sexual attractions to their daughters, where girls were idealized with sexual/romantic connotations, and that was what drove Hebrew and Christian fathers alike to be friends with their children, in a casual, hang-out type of way. Most sexual attraction to children then was at the aware level, in the form of a connotational "sun tan" spray that didn't affect how fathers treated children, apart from making them more passive around their children, like a human ragdoll, and fathers did deify their children as they got older, seeing their young daughters as "angels", speaking of their daughters in angelic terms, as well as their sons, but daughters got more of a soft sort of treatment compared to boys, even in the Early Church. Mothers were closer to their children, and provided sustenance and nourishment in the form of skin-to-skin closeness and breastfeeding respectively. Mothers guarded their children from the parent sexual desire of fathers. Much of this parenting context in the Bible applies today, but not all. You decide as the parent. In the case you end up having sexual thoughts about your own child, during your attachment parenting journey, do not repress the thoughts - just let them fly by, and allow yourself to have sexual fantasies about your child as a form of time-out - with "time-out" in attachment parenting means a break for the PARENTS and NOT the child.

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! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!