Pro-social deification, pro-social child worship: Why biblical society was child worshipping society

Many parents think that biblical times were harsh, with rumors of child labor and such. The fact of the matter is that biblical society was not harsh with children. Children were worshipped then, meaning seen as on the level of God, and appeased like one would a deity. 

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

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

This refers to pro-social child worship, as children would have been included in the "least of these" then, and a vulnerable individual was seen as an extension of God, and that included children. However you treated children was how you treated God, without exception. 

Christian love is how you raise up child the biblical way, with this form of love being denoted by the Greek root word αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to putting children first, and parents last, in a convicted way leading to dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return from children or anyone else, with children feeling safe and secure with 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 in parents. This form of respect does not come in the form of fearful compliance, but instead comes in the form of restful trust in parents, telling parents anything and everything that is on your mind, including admissions of wrongdoing, expecting absolutely no punishment or reprisal in return. Parents then were mere servants to their child, not authority figures, with children being in place of God. Christian parents in the 1st Century were, by church ordinance, extensions of Christ working for a Godhead which is children, with children resting in place of God in the hard work of their parents, with parents sacrificing for their child like Christ sacrificed for God's Kingdom.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or abuse, namely child abuse in this context. This refers to the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child, including the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by the child, coming from entitlement. The Apostle Paul here was lifting up the Law against punishment and controlling demeanor towards a child. Paul, from prison, was rebuking a group of Greek Christians who brought their pagan custom of spanking children for impurity into the church, misusing Proverbs even back then in the 1st Century. The Apostle Paul here was saying that the verses they selected as their abusers' excuse did not have anything to do with parenting. The Apostle Paul was anti-spanking and opposed to punishing a child for any reason. He may have been imperfect around women, but he had nothing against children, and no Jew or Christian then that was serious about their faith ever struck or punished a child.

Children were appeased like the imperfect gods and goddesses that they were seen as, figuratively speaking. This means the goal of biblical parenting was to appease the every vulnerable need/want of children, with children slapping parents across the face, and screaming in their face with morning breath, demanding their needs as a lawful and binding order. Only children could order their parents around in a lawful and binding manner, not the reverse - parents had no legal authority over their minor children.

Children were seen as imperfect extensions of God, running around, making messes, knocking things over in the house. Children were loved for their faults, not despite them, in a way that parents knew intuitively that mischevious and disorderly behavior was simply a phase, so parents rolled with it, and laughed with the children when they made messes or caused mischief. Occasionally, a casual apology in court was expected of parents when children went too far and disturbed the neighbors, but parents expected children to cause some ruckus, as children were expected to be children, not little adults, and parents related to children on their level.

Pro-social child worship is a form of pro-social deification, meaning you relate to children with the same reverent fear that you do to God, meaning "I better" type of fearful self-talk, such as "I better not say that again - it offended my poor child". It is a reverence and fear for children not despite their vulnerability, but because of it. Think a parent shaking and quaking in the wake of their child's cries or demands. You better attend to that child, or you might as well spend eternity in Hell. 

Children could be related to by parents in biblical times in the attached way that they were because children went naked wherever they went. This brought the level of attachment down to full equality, which leads parents to deify their children, and put them on a high altar to bow down to and obey. Shivers and reverent fear were likely a common sensation for parents in biblical times.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Let them descend into the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!