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

It is Christmastime. We all know about the virgin birth, and how the Christ child was adored by all. However, while Christ was truly God, all children in biblical times were seen as extensions of God, and were worshipped at their birth much like Christ was. The only difference was that ordinary children were seen as God-like, whereas the Christ child was seen as literally God on earth.

Children in biblical times were seen as the "least of these", meaning God extended in vulnerable form. See 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.

Children were seen in biblical times as among the "least of these". Children were seen as God extended to the parent, and parents were obligated to serve their children as they would God. Whatever you did to children, good or bad, is what you did to God. Those who mistreated their children, or children in general, mistreated God. Children could issue lawfully binding orders on parents.

Righteous child worship 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 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. This word refers to secure attachment, meaning secure attachment with your child is a commandment from God. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where children issued orders as to what they needed, and parents obeyed their child's orders.

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, 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 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 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 of a child in his secular writings. Paul may not have gotten along with the women of the church, but he sure loved children, and took in a few orphaned children in his time. 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 that parents are bound by the righteous demands of children. Parents were required to obey the every order of their children, by default. The only reason parents could righteously disobey a child was if the orders were unlawful and/or unworkable. When children received the word "no" when it wasn't warranted, they could appeal to the council, and if the parents were found as guilty, they would be excommunicated from the Early Church.

The every cry of a young child was seen as a lawfully binding order on the part of the child, in all cases. Thus, mothers were to respond to the every cry of their child. For the first 6 years of a child's life, children were in constant closeness to mothers, meaning that wherever the mother went, so did the child. The Early Christians practiced birth nudity, where mother and child were quartered in the nude next to each other in the family home, in skin-on-skin closeness and intimacy. Whenever children cried, mothers cooed before picking up the child, then holding the child close to her bosom, in skin-on-skin mammary closeness. When out and about in public, children were swaddled next to the bosom of parents in swaddling blankets. Come nightfall, children co-slept next to mothers in skin-on-skin format, with co-sleeping, in most cases, lasting until the onset of puberty, when children wanted their own place to sleep. 

Children were seen as the ones in the household that gave the orders, meaning children in biblical times called the shots. Children were seen as vulnerable extensions of God, meaning God extends children to the doorstep of parents for love and charity. Children were seen in biblical times as like God, but imperfect format. If you offended children in biblical times, you offended God. That meant, in practice then, that if you even got angry with children, you got angry with God.

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