Why the Bible says to expand child abuse definitions

Many parents think that the Bible does not have answers as to what defines child abuse. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. However, the fact of the matter is that there exists a biblical definition of child abuse, namely whatever the child victim perceives as abusive.

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 a parent being sorely disappointed when they don't get what they feel that they deserve from children. Parents are deserving of absolutely nothing from children just for existing. Any parent anger towards a child was deemed parental entitlement in biblical times. When this sense of entitlement was perceived by a child, it was deemed child abuse. See 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. 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 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 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.

The Greek root word translated "they be discouraged" is αθυμέω (Latin: athumeo) and refers to trauma, meaning long-term psychological damages. Whenever a child lost heart, and became an atheist, Christians blamed the atheist's entitled parents for discouraging the child at hand, not the child who grew up to be an atheist. In the Early Church, atheism was embarrassing for the parents in question, not the child who grew up to be atheist.

Child abuse, in biblical times, was defined, in short, as when children perceived the sense of entitlement in a parent or other adult, it was deemed child abuse. When child abuse was discovered in a home, an individual parishioner rebuked the parents. After enough rebukes, the parents were put before a council of three elders, who decided the fate of the allegedly entitled parents. Christian law then operated as an inquisitorial system of jurisprudence, meaning the council let the church investigation into the set of parents in question. After the guilty verdict was reached, the child was given a choice - go with parents, or go with pedophiles. Most all of the time, the child went with the pedophile, and then they were nursed back to health, with the pedophile lactating for the child. Children were never raped when taken in by pedophiles, and if a child as much as was afraid of a pedophile, there was another investigation into an alleged sexual abuser of children infiltrating the church.

The depraved and entitled parent 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!