Expanding child abuse definitions: Why the Bible calls for more laws protecting children from abuse

Many parents think that child abuse is a modern concept, and that the ancients had no concept of child abuse. Most American parents support the modern definitions of child abuse. However, the Bible has its own definition child abuse, namely whatever the child victim perceives as abuse.

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 consists of a parent who is sorely disappointed when they don't get what they feel tha they deserve from children. Any parent anger directed towards children was deemed parental entitlement in biblical times. Whenever this sense of entitlement in parents was perceived by the child 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 here to offenses or damages, 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. It is not enough to stop spanking or punishing your child - you need to avoid the slightest of offense as perceived by a child. The only way to avoid guilt under this commandment is to give a meaningful apology to your child whenever you offend them, especially when you lose your cool with your child. This commandment cross-references both the Eighth and the Tenth Commandments, with the Apostle Paul here convicting a group of Greek Christian parents who brought their pagan custom of patrias potestas, meaning "power to the parent", including the power to spank or punish children. Roman law prohibited attachment parenting, but the Early Christians practiced attachment parenting anyway, as a form of civil disobedience. Child sexual abuse was defined instead by the Greek root word πορνεία (Latin: porneia) and refers here to, at minimum, any sexual advances perceived by a child, even if the child likes what they perceive, as adult fornication of children is a moral crime against God, with this country being defined on the concept of sexual purity. 

The Greek root word translated "they be discouraged" is αθυμέω (Latin: athumeo) and refers to long-term damages from child abuse, including trauma. The ancients did have a basic understanding of trauma. Whenever a child grew up to be atheist, it was seen as a sign of trauma, not simply the atheist being a "lost soul". 

Child abuse was something prosecuted in the Early Church by way of the council. The investigation usually started with a child confiding into church elders about being abused by parents. The elders then called parents to testify before the council. Parents were required to plea "yea" or "nay" before the council, and if they defended their rights as parents instead, they were excommunicated from the Early Christian Churches of God for parental entitlement.

The Bible is an anti-spanking document, with all 88 books of the Bible - from Genesis to Revelation - being written by Jews, with no Jew worth mentioning ever supporting the punishment of children. All of the writers of the Bible were anti-spanking, with even King Solomon recommending attachment parenting for the little ones - with the rod in Proverbs referring to the 40 minus 1 lashes, which was a form of judicial corporal punishment that was repealed by Christ's Work on the cross. 

The Bible is a founding document of this country, even above the Constitution itself. We as a society glean from the Bible as to how to live. Most of our legal codes come from the Bible. It just so happens that the Bible was written with an anti-spanking bias. The Bible was simply mistranslated at the Latinate level, meaning the Roman Catholic Church wanted to keep a pagan tradition going. 

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!