Adult anger towards children: Why anger at children is banned in the Bible

Many parents think that they have the "right" to get angry at their children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents and adults need an attitude adjustment in relation children. Any anger towards a child was banned in the Bible, no matter what.

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. Unoffically speaking, parental entitlement is an adult being sorely disappointed when they don't get what they feel deserving of from children. An adult is deserving of absolutely nothing from children just for existing. Any adult anger directed towards a child was seen in biblical times as parental entitlement, including even moral anger towards children. Whenever this sense of entitlement was perceived by children as offensive or damaging, 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 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 a 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 even took in a few orphaned children during his time as a deacon.

Adult anger is not a good place to be. In biblical times, anger at a child was seen as akin to a viper lashing out at a child. Adult anger was something that children were shielded from, meaning children were not even exposed to anger from their children.

Most anger at a child comes from deservances. The idea is to avoid the slightest of deservances. Whenever you feel yourself feeling yourself deserving things from children, tell yourself that you are deserving of absolutely nothing from children. As soon as you feel that adult anger come on, tell yourself how you are deserving of absolutely nothing from your child. 

Anger at children is anger "without a cause", as children under the age of majority are not to be expected to behave just as "little adults". The main moral crime that was seen as worthy of prosecuting in a child was fornication, and even then, only in reverse coloration format. Sexual interactions had to be atoned for at the child's baptism, alongside other blasphemy offenses such as moral crimes motivated by alcohol or other intoxicants. Even in the case of clear blasphemy, parents did not get angry at, but instead simply took down the docket to hand over to the council. See Matt. 5:21-22.

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!