Love children: Why parents and adults are to love all children

Many parents think that they love their children. This is a common excuse for abuse by parents, meaning many parents argue with the caseworker or law enforcement agent investigating them that they love their children. Most American parents think that they love their children, but very few do. Love is not just a feeling or a verb, but is a state of being for the Christian. The word "love" in relation to children is not something you just throw around. Love is submission, and submission is love, and parents are to submit to their children.

It says in Matthew 22:35-40 KJV:

Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all thy soul, and all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The Greek root word translated "love" is αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to, in the context of parenting, prioritizing your child first, and yourself last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission to children as you would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return. True Love does not come from pride or desire, but instead comes from fearful conviction, where parents are convicted of the fact that they are depraved and decadent sinners, who are deserving of absolutely nothing in relation to children. This makes the sinner/parent feel worthless, prompting the sinner/parent to earn their worth by doing good works for children. In turn, children are to rest safely and securely in the love and submission 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 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. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children as they would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Parents are to submit to children, regarding themselves as the enemy of children, from beneath yet from above, revering their child as an extension of God.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, stemming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demenaor towards children. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding your child hostage merely for things that they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context in order to convict a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they were adults. Women only wore clothing outside of the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve both their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by way of providing for them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comfort. Children up until age 6 never left the side of their mothers, ranging beside her, clinging to her when they were crying or upset. When out and about, young children were swaddled next to the bosom of mothers with swaddling blankets, with older children trailing along. By night, children co-slept next to their mothers, with mothers doing this to guard children against the sexual entitlement of their fathers, as well as other predators of non-human nature. Fathers also formed a secure attachment to a child, by way of witnessing skin-on-skin closeness between mother and child, usually in the form of a connotational sexual attachment. Fathers usually dealt with this sexual attachment by way of following the sexual thoughts about their child to the end using masturbatory fantasy. Actual child sexual abuse was rare next to non-existent in biblical times, but when it did happen, it was seen as deserving of death, even in the New Testament, where Christ abolished the death penalty by experiencing it before being Risen.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever 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 abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!