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

Many parents think they love their children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents, and often likened to an emotional sentiment. However, true Love, meaning Christian Love, is not a feeling or a verb, but a state of being. You can be in it, and be in it the right way. Many parents throw that word around like it means nothing, often as an excuse when making a forceful decision for their children. Love is a very deep concept, and there is usually no reason to use the word "love" except to brag and boast about something that is a deep state out of Christian humility. The only exception is to describe its practice, as true Love is a national sport to practice. Love is submission, and submission is love.

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 greatest commandment of 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 neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

The Greek root word translated "love" is αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to, in the context of parenting, prioritizing children first, and yourself as a parent last, to the point of dutiful and selfless submission as you would to God, expecting absolutely nothing in return. True Love does not come from pride or desire, but from fearful conviction, where parents are convicted of being depraved and decadent sinners, who are deserving of absolutely nothing in relation to children. This creates a feeling of worthlessness in the sinner/parent, which prompts the sinner/parent to do good works for their child, fearing the Lord in their child. Other adults should be duly convicted also by this commandment, and love children as their neighbor. Parents and other adults in biblical times loved all children as their neighbor in vulnerable form, seeing children as vulnerable appearances of God called to judge and convict parents and caregivers of their charity and good will.

Love is submission, and submission is love. Parents are to love their children, meaning be submissive with them. Parents and children are to submit to each other, in mutual submission format, with parents being the burden of proof in said mutual submission relationship. 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, 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 children as their enemy, from beneath yet from above, revering and fearing children as vulnerable extensions 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, 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. 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 holding them 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. Women only wore clothing when they were 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 them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin comfort. Children, during the first 6 years of life, never left the side of their mothers, ranging besides mothers when at home, sometimes clinging to her. When out and about, mothers wrapped up their children next to their bosom in swaddling clothing, up until age 6. By night, mothers co-slept next to children, guarding them from all predatory threats, including the sexual entitlement of fathers. Fathers also formed a secure attachment to children, by way of witnessing skin-on-skin bonding between mother and child, and wanting in on the action through a sexual attachment to the nude child. Fathers dealt with this sexual attachment to their children - usually daughters - by way of following the sexual thoughts about their child to the end through masturbatory fantasy. This improved the relationship between the father and his children. Daughters were usually also attracted to fathers, usually by way of simply wanting to look attractive to him. Actual child sexual abuse was rare next to non-existent in biblical times, and was severely punished in both the Old and New Testaments. The Early Christians excommunicated adult fornicators of children without allowing them back, ever. They were seen as condemned to their fate, which was everlasting punishment.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke 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!