Righteous child worship: Why Ancient Jewish society was a child worshipping society

Many parents think that is okay to punish a child. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Parents are heavily influence, in their parenting beliefs, by false context. This false context paints the Ancient Jews as a child enslavement society. The fact of the matter is that Ancient Jewish society, including the Early Church, was a child worshipping society.

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 one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

The list of oppressed groups stated before this passage by Christ is not an exhaustive list, but rather was a list of marginalized groups in Christ's Jewish culture. Children were not a marginalized group in Ancient Jewish culture, yet were seen as the "least of these". Children were seen in biblical times as the salt and light of the world, meaning a collective Godhead sitting atop a mounted hill, casting high judgment amongst all of adult-kind, discerning between the sheep and the goats, bringing out the best and the worst of adults just by being themselves. A child, in biblical times, was seen as God extended to parent

Righteous child worship is an acronym that is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission. 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 submission of parents. Parents are the enemy of children, just as mankind is the enemy of God, and are to submit as such. This surrender to parents came with strings attached on the part of parents, with children issuing righteous demands for parents to obey, usually when parents weren't pulling their weight.

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 the moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including, but not limited to, any punishments, reprimands, or other 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 that they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up the Law 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 in his secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and even took in a few orphaned children. Indeed, Greco-Roman fathers used the scourge of cords to punish their children, but NOT the Christians among them - the Early Christians were hated largely for being "too soft" on their children.

Children held divine authority over parents, meaning parents were required by law then to obey, by default, the righteous demands of their children. The only lawful reasons for disobeying a child was if the orders coming from the child were unlawful and/or unworkable. Even then, children were required by law to be reassured if they were upset by the parents refusing their orders. 

Crying then in young children under age 6 was seen as a righteous demand, in all cases. Thus, parents were required to respond to the every cry of a child. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children never left the side of mothers, instead being in constant closeness to mothers. Mothers were close to children until the children turned age 6, and were breastfed, most of the time, until age 3, but perhaps until age 6 or older. By nightfall, mothers co-slept next to their children, sacrificing their comfort for the comfort of the child. Mothers saw themselves as serving God by serving their child, with the selfless nature of this parenting seen as sacrificing for a Godhead just as Christ Sacrificed for His children.

Children in biblical times, like in all societies, engaged in mischief and "wet and messy" behavior. However, parents never got angry at the mischief of children, instead laughing along and having a good sense of humor towards behaviors in children. Children were seen in terms of reverence, meaning parents had reverent fear for their children, for their child could easily mark them as among the damned.

Ancient Jewish society, including in the Early Church, was a child worshipping society. Children made up the upper class of Ancient Jewish society. Children were seen, as a group of people, as the salt and light of the world. Adults in Ancient Jewish culture avoided getting children upset or angry, as that would mark them as among the damned. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be cast forever 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 day and night forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!