Parent anger: Why to avoid parent anger at all costs

Many parents think they have the right to get angry with their children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents have parent anger towards their children. However, the fact of the matter is that parent anger is a form of entitlement on the part of the parent.

The Greek root word denoting parental entitlement is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and is defined as, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, parental entitlement is throwing a temper tantrum just for not getting what you feel that you deserve from children. All adult anger, including parent anger, was seen in biblical times as a form of parental entitlement. When this temper tantrum was perceived as offensive or damaging by a child, it was deemed child abuse. See also Colossians 3:21 KJV:

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. 

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 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 Christians 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 even took in a few orphaned children during his time as a deacon.

Parent anger is also prohibited in the Gospel, meaning Christ's Sermon on the Mount. See Matthew 5:21-22 KJV:

Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

"Without a cause" here refers to righteous anger. Righteous anger is anger at sin. Children, while they were still children at least, were seen as not having a sin count. Blasphemy offenses were seen as sinful, but only in retrospect, as the child's baptism as an adult. However, any child who dies prematurely will get into Heaven, straight ticket. When children became adults, however, it was time to atone. Nowhere is the age of majority found in the New Testament, and so the law of the land answers that question. Nobody under the age of majority could be charged with anything. Thus, any time you are angry with your child "with a cause", you don't have a cause at all in all reality. 

Parent anger, as well as adult anger, was seen in biblical times as akin to a viper striking out at a child. Parents only got angry then in order to protect their children from harm or abuse. Apart from that, parents either were concerned or worried about a child's behavior, or else laughed it off. When children got into pretty much anything, parents laughed at all of the things that children came up with. Children don't know any better, and can't learn better until a certain age what is okay behavior and what isn't okay behavior.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their 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!