What is child abuse images?: Why consent matters in photographs of children

Many parents think that child abuse images are the same as child pornography. Child pornography is one class of child abuse images, but there are other, more common forms of abusive imagery published on the Internet. The fact of the matter is that if the child cannot give informed consent to their photograph being published, it is a form of Internet child exploitation.

The Greek root word denoting entitlement in the New Testament, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πγεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers to want from or of children, to the point of imposition, with the perceived imposition being child abuse. It says in Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to the slightest of personal offense perceived by the child. This can include personal offense from an image being published over the Internet, such as on a social media platform.

The judgment line is if you are unwilling to delete it when the child complains about any embarrassment they might have from the image being out there. If you refuse to carry on the child's wishes, from that point on, you are offending that child, and that is a form of abuse. 

The entitlement behind such an offender is wanting to show your child to the world like he/she is a prized possession or a piece of property, to the point of imposing that mindset onto your child. Covetous sin comes from the statement that parents have the "right" to publish their child however they please, against the consent of the child. Abuse comes from the affront or righteous anger stemming from the refusal to carry out the child's wishes.

Using an image of a child for sexual purposes is sexual impropriety when the image was taken without the child's informed consent. If a child appears unaware that they are being photographed, and you know that the parents would not delete the image, it is unacceptable to use the image. All images of a child taken with intent to sexually objectify or slander them are off-limits, as the child could not come to a place of INFORMED consent to the images being taken. People can be judged using the innocent until proven guilty method, however I as a pedophile judge all images guilty until I scrutinize the poses. 

A pedophile can do the "just for you" method - if it appears to be marketed to YOU as a pedophile, don't use it. Child pornography, under the secular law here in the United States, can include fully clothed images if the child is posed a certain way. Using any image intended as pornography is impropriety under biblical law - it doesn't rise to the level of a moral crime, but you don't want to give that source any credence, as the Christian is to oppose pornography in all its forms as obscenity. Distributing or producing pornography of any kind is the moral crime of fornication by way of obscenity.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through publicizing images of child abuse will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Repent!