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

Many parents think they love their children. It is a common belief amongst American parents that the parents in question love their children. However, very few parents actually love their children. Christian love for a child has nothing to do with adoring a child or showing affection towards them. Love is giving to children without receiving anything in return. So, in short, love is giving without receiving.

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 of the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all 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 neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

The Greek root word translated "love" here is αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to giving without receiving, in a selfless way. The word refers to, in the context of parenting, prioritizing children first, and yourself last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission to children and their every vulnerable need, expecting absolutely nothing in return. True Love does not come from pride or desire, but instead comes from a place of fearful conviction, where parents are convicted of the fact that they are a depraved and decadent sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing in relation to children. This leads to sinners/parents being prompted to pay due penance for their sinful nature, and serve children selflessly. Children were loved as a neighbor, albeit a very vulnerable yet convicting neighbor.

Christian love for children is to be expressed in the form of a mutual submission relationship. Parents are to submit to their children as they would to God, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: as 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 are to rest 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 to God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Children are to rest safely and securely in the presence of parents, trusting parents in all things, following mothers around especially like goslings to a mother goose.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethuzo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense 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 demeanor towards children. Parents who punished their children in biblical times 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 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 when outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by way of providing for their children nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin co-sleeping. Children in biblical times went naked for a reason - so that mothers could scoop them up and snuggle with them when they cried or were upset, held to the bosom of mothers in mammary closeness. By night, mothers co-slept next to their children in skin-on-skin format, with mother and child fast asleep, and with children soaking up the rays of skin-to-skin contact. Children were allowed to breastfeed wherever, whenever, when the child was milk-dependent. Parents in biblical times waited until the child rejected the teat to stop breastfeeding, which was usually around age 3, sometimes up to age 6, and sometimes much older.

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!