Righeous child worship: Why children are extensions of God

Many parents think that the Ancient Jewish society was a child enslaving society. This is a common attitude from American parents. Most American parents want to be seen as extensions of God in their children's lives. However, the Early Christians in particular were, in fact, attachment parents of the child worshipping variety.

God's Word reads in Matthew 25:45-46 KJV:

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Insmuch 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.

This passage was seen as including children with the "least of these". Righteous child worship holds that children are the "least of these", extended to the doorstep of parents for love and charity, with parents being in full and dutiful submission to children, and children resting in the love and submission from parents. Parents are to submit to children just as they would to God, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return. Whatever you did to your child, such as punishing them, you did to God. Whatever you did not do for children, you did not do for God.

Righteous child worship is part of the Christian doctrine of mutual submission, with the burden of proof falling squarely on the 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 submission of parents. This word ultimately refers to a secure attachment between parent and child in the family home. This secure attachment comes from parent submission, where parents are to submit to their children just as they would to God, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return. See also Matt. 22:35-40; 25:31-46.

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 was 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. The parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined 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 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 during his time as a deacon.

Righteous child worship does not mean literally praying to your child for good things, and instead means that children are to be served and submitted to just as parents would do for God. Whatever you do for your child, you do for God. Whatever you don't do for your child, you don't do for God.

Love for your children involves heeling to the commands of children, in full and dutiful submission to children, just as a parent would heel and submit to the commands of God. In most cases, when a child growing up in the Early Church wanted something, it was seen as a lawful summonses from children for parents to give children what they wanted. The only instance where parents were allowed to say "no" was when the commands of children were unsafe, unworkable, and/or immoral. Even then, parents usually struck up a compromise with children, instead of giving children a complete "no".

Children in biblical times were seen as doing no wrong, meaning a child was completely innocent and incapable of doing wrong, even if they did do things wrong technically. Children were instead seen as collective Godhead, issuing lawfully binding orders to parents and other adults.

Whenever children cried, mothers were quick to coo at a child before picking them up, and from there, diagnosed the need and met it. Maybe the child was tired. Maybe the child was hungry. Maybe the child needed mom's milk. Maybe the child needed mom, period. Children got most of what they wanted, and all of what they needed, with children being seen as extensions of God. 

Children were seen in the Early Church as being extended by God to the doorstep of parents, for purposes of love and charity coming from parents. Parents, in biblical times, were to be in full and dutiful submission to children, from beneath yet from above, expecting absolutely nothing in return.

The Early Christian culture was a child worshipping culture, meaning that children were seen then as extensions of God called to issue lawfully binding commands. When parents heard the commands of children, they heeled to those commands, expecting absolutely nothing in return. The Early Christians did not enslave their children. Instead, parents were righteously enslaved to children, submitting to their children just as they would to God. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke your 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.