Mutual submission: Why parents and children should submit to each other

Many parents think that children should submit to their parents, and that parents have the right to demand submission from children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents want their children to submit to them. However, the fact of the matter is that parents and children should submit to each other, with parents bearing the burden of proof.

Mutual submission is where parents submit to children first, and then children submit subsequently. Parents are to be submissive to children, just as mankind is submissive to God, with parents being the enemy of children, seeking to win them over. 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 to God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Parents are to submit to their children from beneath, yet from above, as the enemy of their children, just as mankind is the enemy of God.

The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and refers to damages or offenses, namely the slightest of personal offense perceived by a child, including, but not limited to, is 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 puniushments or controlling demeanor 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 offensive touch or speech 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 punishment into the church. Paul, contrary to popular legend, was anti-spanking, and opposed any and all punishment of a child.

Parents are to be submissive to their children, just as mankind is to be submissive to God. Parents are the enemy of their children, just as mankind is the enemy of God, and is to be subservient to children just as they are to God. Children in biblical times were prized when they were bold and rebellious. Boldness was seen as a sign of independence, with bold feats of independence being lavishly praised and encouraged by fathers. Rebellion was seen in children as merely an effort on the child's part to assert their autonomy, with children being viewed as autonomous individuals, not extensuons of parents. Children issued righteous demands onto parents, with parents giving up any fight with their children, and giving in to the demands of children. These righteous demands brought parents to full and dutiful submission to children.

Parents are to submit to their children, just as mankind is to submit to God, with parents being subservient to children just as mankind is subservient to God. Parents are to serve children as their enemy, seeking to be their friend, knowing that they have sinned against their children merely for existing as an adult, and thus they need to atone by submitting to their children just as they would to God. God hates all mankind, and hates mankind for how we treat the youngest and most vulnerable amongst us. Parents are to atone for their sinful nature by submitting to children as their enemy.

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by 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 mothers, and ranged beside her, sometimes clinging to her when crying or upset. When out and about, mothers swaddled their young children next to their bosom in swaddling blankets. By night, mothers co-slept next to children in skin-on-skin format, in order to guard children from the sexual entitlement of their fathers, as well as other forms of predator. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with their children by way of witnessing the skin-on-skin closeness between mother and child, usually in the form of a sexual attachment where the father imprinted on the naked child in a parental way through connotational sexual attraction. Fathers dealt with this connotational attraction to children by following the sexual thoughts about their child to the end by way of masturbatory fantasy. 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 capital punishment.

The derpaved 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!