Redefining child abuse: Why the Bible calls for expanding child abuse definitions

Many parents think that the ancients in the Bible had no concept of child abuse. This is a common belief amongst American parents. Most American parents support the current child abuse definitions. However, the Bible has its own definition of 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 parents 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 directed towards a child was deemed parental entitlement in biblical times. Whenever this sense of entitlement in parents was perceived by a 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 any and all offense as perceived by a child. The only way to avoid guilt under this commandment is to give a meaningful apology whenever you offend your child, especially when you lose your cool. Children are usually offended when they cry due to parent anger being imposed on them. This commandment cross-references the Eighth and the Tenth Commandments, with the Apostle Paul convicting parents who brought into the church the pagan custom of patrias potestas, with this term meaning "power to the parent", including power to mete out corporal or other forms of punishment. Attachment parenting was banned under Roman law, but the Early Christians did attachment parenting anyway, as a form of civil disobedience to Rome. 

The Greek root word translated "they be discouraged" is αθυμέω (Latin: athumeo) and refers here to long-term damages, namely trauma. The ancients had a basic understanding of trauma. When a child grew up to be atheist, it was seen as a sign of trauma, and not that the atheist was a "lost soul". 

Child abuse was usually prosecuted by a council of 3 elders that headed the parish of the Early Christian church. In most cases, an abused child confided into one of the elders, and then the parents were called before the council. When parents defended their abusive actions, they were excommunicated from the Early Christian Churches of God. 

The Bible is an anti-spanking document, with all 88 books of the Bible - from Genesis to Revelation - being written by Jews. No Jew worth mentioning ever defended child punishment, even in biblical times. Even King Solomon recommended attachment parenting for the little ones, with the rod of correction simply being a form of judicial corporal punishment under the Law. Christ fulfilled the Law, thus taking away the harsh legal punishments found in the Old Testament. 

The Bible is a founding document of this country, even above the Constitution itself. The Bible and its context tell us, as a society, how to live as a country. It just so happens that this Bible is anti-spanking, not pro-spanking. The Bible simply was mistranslated on the Latinate level of the translation, meaning the Bible was translated in error in order to keep a pagan tradition going. The Bible is only God's Word in the original Greek and Hebrew, as understood in context. All of the English language translations of the Bible are in error. 

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!