Pro-social deification, pro-social child worship: Why biblical times were child worshipping times

Many parents think biblical times were child enslaving times, meaning many American parents think that children were enslaved, and even sacrificed, in biblical times. Most parents think that the biblical context was full of brutality for children. However, the fact of the matter is that Ancient Jewish society, including the Early Church, was child worshipping society, meaning they practiced a form of attachment parenting where children were worshipped and venerated.

It says in Matthew 25:45-46 KJV:

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

In the original context of this passage, children would have been seen as the "least of these". They aren't among the enumerated "least of these", but that is because the enumerated persons deemed the "least of these" were ignored by Jewish society. Children never were, and so Christ never needed to remind His people about how they were treating their children. Children, in Ancient Jewish society, as well as the Early Church, were seen as extensions of God, meaning installments and sentries of God called to righteously judge how charitable adults were, and bring out the charity in decent adults, reporting straight to God as to how charitable adults were. The topic of children in biblical times was a convicting and sobering topic. Children brought parents and adults to a humble level.

Parents were submissive to their children, just as they would be submissive to God, humbled by the presence of their children. Children, in return, rested safely and securely in the submission of parents. This is the doctrine of mutual submission, applied to parenting. 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. 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: erethizo) 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 punishments 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 damages or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong, thereby treating children 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.

Parents were submissive to children, just as they were submissive to God. That is because children in biblical times were seen as next to God, in that they were installments or sentries of God called to judge righteously the charity and good will of adult believers towards the poor and the vulnerable, including the children themselves. In practical terms, children were prized when they were bold and rebellious in nature, enough to bring forth full and dutiful submission in their parents with their presence. Parents, instead of fighting with children to begin with, gave up any urge to fight, surrendered to their children, and gave in to any demands the children brought forth in open court. Children, if their parents did not provide as they liked, could take their parents to court on anti-entitlement charges, and by that time, the child always prevailed in court. Children were judged righteously as sacrosanct, meaning they could do no wrong, even if they literally did things that were considered wrong. Children were seen as honorable and venerable, with parents and other adults struck with reverent fear and terror of them.

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 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 co-sleeping. Children went naked for a reason - in order for mothers to be able to scoop them up and hold them in skin-on-skin closeness, meaning mammary closeness, and possibly allow them to breastfeed if they are still milk-dependent. By night, mothers co-slept next to their children, with mother and child fast asleep while snuggling in the nude, and with children soaking up the rays of skin-to-skin contact with mothers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with their children, after witnessing close bonding between mother and child. The secure attachment between father and child usually came in the form of sexual attachment, usually in the case of daughters, and usually in connotational form. Fathers dealt with the attraction not by using children as sexual objects, but by following their sexual thoughts about their child to the end using masturbatory fantasy. Child sexual abuse, contrary to popular belief, 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 suffering it on the cross. Fathers mainly served the role of protector of the home, guarding the family homestead with a rod and a staff, with the rod and staff being there to beat and bludgeon intruders with. Otherwise, fathers were toppled over and dragged around by children, like a ragdoll.

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 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 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!