Righteous enslavement: Why parents are bondservants to their children

Many parents think that their children serve them. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents think that their children should serve them, usually posited as a form of child obedience. However, the Bible says differently - parents are bondservants hired by God to serve the every vulnerable need of children, with children being appointed by God as enforcer of duties. It's not fair, but that's life. Children are in charge, with God being the Highest Authority up Above.

The Fifth Commandment is repeated in Colossians 3:20 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. 

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, with parent believers resting securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children as one would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting in the submission of parents/ Children are to rest securely in the presence of parents, trusting parents in all things, following mothers around especially like goslings to a mother goose.

The Greek root word translated "parents" is γονεύς (Latin: goneus) and refers to a specific type of parent, namely an attachment parent. In the biblical context, parents were considered bondservants to their children. Parents were seen then as slaves to their children, working for a lump sum. That lump sum was the independence of their children. Fathers especially encouraged bold feats of independence, but mothers also encouraged independence to the degree that they could stomach. Parents, in the mean time, were to slave over their every child's need hand and foot, being a servant caregiver that clothed them hand over foot, fed them from a spoon, or else fed them from a teat. 

Children were the slaveholders of their parents in biblical times. The Lord our God was ultimately the Overseer of the parents, with the children on the ground standing right next to God, enforcing the commandment to be charitable to the poor and vulnerable onto parents. The ancients had a concept of what child abuse was. Anything that offended the child personally, or otherwise caused damages, was unlawful to impose on a child. 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, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damages and offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen in biblical times as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context in order to convict a group of Greek Christians who brought their pagan custom of spanking and punishing children into the church. 

The commandment against provocation to anger in children was interpreted as attachment parenting stated in the negative. For example, parents are to attend to their children's every cry and upset, reassuring and soothing them, with mothers using their sustaining warmth - meaning skin-on-skin comforting strategies - to soothe their upset children just as they would a baby crying. Parenting manuals expanded on the commands exegeted in this post, and put the fear of God into parents, in searing format, saying that children reported to God whenever parents did not do their job, and saying that if even one iota of the listed needs of the child stated in the manual were neglected, the parent would burn in Hell. Mothers and fathers both scrambled to give children the best childhood they could, and hoped that they would be forgiven for what they couldn't provide, perhaps due to impoverishment or famine. Parenting advice in biblical times was very guilt oriented. Children were like the elf on the shelf for parents, to put them in objectifying terms. Only, children were seen instead as superhuman, as a deity of their own, next to God. Fathers may have sexualized the deity of their daughter, as fathers were in full awareness of their parent attraction, masturbating to fantasies of their children, usually their daughters. Daughters were seen as a goddess of sexuality to fathers in Ancient Israel and the Early Church. Mothers saw both their sons and daughters as gods and goddesses of charity, and felt obligated to them therein. Fathers were motivated the other way.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast 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 forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Christian attachment parenting: The attachment parenting traditions of the Bible

Many parents swear by punitive parenting, up and down. They defend their so-called "right" to punish their children. Punitive parenting is characterized by parents and their allies as a family tradition handed down from parent to child. However, that tradition is absent in the Bible, when understood in the Bible's original context. Instead, attachment parenting is the tradition we should heed as a country.

I myself am a Christian dominionist, meaning I support our founding Christian family values, and I support them enacted into law. God has cast a dominion over all of America, yet only a few will heed the warning. The Bible not only is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, but is also codified law above the law of the land. That codified law mandates Christian attachment parenting, meaning parents are to form a secure attachment with their children.

Christian attachment parenting is based off of the doctrine of mutual submission. Parents are to submit to the every vulnerable need of children as they would God, and children are to rest in the submission of parents. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children as one would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Children are to rest safely and securely in the presence of parents, with children trusting parents in everything, and children following mothers especially around like a gosling to a mother goose. 

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, including, but not limited to, the slightest of offensive touch or speech perceived by a child, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor towards a child. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. 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 they did wrong, thereby treating them as a quartered slave. Paul was lifting up this legal context 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.

How were children treated in biblical times? Children were seen as extensions of God, meaning sentries of God called to righteously judge all adults, including their own parents, as to how charitable they are, then reporting to God. Children were worshipped and venerated in biblical times as having their own deity, which was representative of God. Parents sought, sometimes frantically, to win over the deity of their children onto their side. Parents avoided incurring the wrath of their children, seeking to appease and please the fire that was their wrath, working hard and diligently to keep children happy. Ancient Israel, and the Early Church, were child worshipping societies, meaning not child enslavement societies or child sacrificing societies. 

Children, in biblical times, wore absolutely no clothing, at all, until they became adults. Women only wore clothing outside the home, and otherwise went in the nude, in order to serve their husbands and their children, separately. Mothers served their children by providing for them nourishment and sustenance, namely attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin co-sleeping. Mothers, by night, slept next to their children, guarding them from predators and the sexual entitlement of their fathers. By day, mothers co-snuggled in skin-on-skin fashion with children at home in order to soothe and reassure their upset, saying to children softly "this too will pass". Out and about, children up until age 6 were wrapped up against the bosom of mothers, in swaddling blankets, with children older than age 6 following mothers around like a gosling to a mother goose. Fathers stood guard, protecting the mother and child with his rod and staff, beating intruders (meaning NOT children) who posed a threat to the mother and child. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with their children, by witnessing skin-to-skin closeness and intimacy between mother and child. However, most all fathers developed a sexual attachment to their children, of the connotational type. The religious authorities recommended to fathers that they follow the sexual thoughts about their children to the end through masturbatory fantasy. This sexual awareness improved the relationship between father and child. Usually, fathers developed an attraction on their daughters, and their daughters were attracted to them. This created a mutually unrequited sexual dynamic between father and daughter, and this sexual dynamic was a sign of sexual purity in the home, as long as it stayed unrequited. Actual child sexual abuse was rare and next to non-existent in biblical times, in both the Old and New Testament, but when it happened, people were outraged, and the sex offender was seen as deserving of death. Parents in biblical times were caregivers, not lawgivers or lawmakers, as the goal then was not to be in charge of a child, but to take care of a child. Mothers cared for children up close, and fathers cared for children from afar.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast 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 forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Why to ban child marriages (and why Pennsylvania already has)

Most ordinary people know that child marriages are wrong. This should go without explanation. However, in most states, child marriages are legal, and the first people to avail themselves of that law claim to share my values, yet don't share my sexual purity values. Sex with children will never be acceptable. Child marriage, in most states, is the most serious of forms of lawful sexual abuse. 

Here in Pennsylvania, child marriages are now banned. Act 18 of 2020 amended the Domestic Relations Code of Pennsylvania by deleting provisions allowing for child marriages. Before that, child marriages were legal regardless of age, with different degrees of "protection" for children. Now, all children are protected from child marriage.

Why is child marriage wrong? The Greek root word denoting sexual offenses is πορνεία (Latin: porneia) and lifts up all of the sex crime laws under the Law of Moses. One of those laws was that children could not be married until they reach the age of majority. The age of majority was different in Ancient Israel, but those ages are nowhere stated in the Bible. Thus, the tradition is to only allow marriages at the age of majority, wherever it is. In the United States, it is 18, and seeking to change the definition of childhood for self-serving purposes is adult sexual entitlement.

Sex with children will never be acceptable, even if it is accepted under the law of the land! Let the depraved and decadent, defiled sex offenders of children will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let then burn in torrents of fire! Repent!

Pro-social deification, pro-social child worship: Why biblical society was child worshipping society

Many parents think that biblical times were harsh times for children. This is a common view of the biblical context by American parents, and it is often used to scare children into being grateful. However, the fact of the matter is that Ancient Israel and the Early Church were actually child worshipping societies, not child enslaving societies or child sacrificing societies.

It says in Matthew 25:45-46 KJV:

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily, I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.

Children were seen as the "least of these" in biblical times, meaning they were seen as extensions of God, meaning sentries of God, appointed by God to judge parents and other adults righteously as to how charitable they were to them. Children were seen as appointed by God to bring out the charity in parents and other adults. Children were seen as reporting straight to God as to how charitable parents or other caregivers actually were, with children working hand in hand with God shoveling uncharitable scrooges of parents into Hell. Pro-social child worship is regarding your child as an extension of God in this regard, working alongside God to make sure adults were charitable towards the "least of these", including especially children.

Parents are to submit to children just as they would God, in mutual submission format. It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, dutifully and selflessly submitting to children as one would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the wake of parental submission. Children are to rest safely and securely in the presence of children, trusting parents in all things, following mothers especially around like goslings to a mother goose. 

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, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or 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. Parents who punished their children were charged with kidnapping, with "kidnapping" being defined under the Law as the slightest of damaged or offenses stemming from hostage-taking - child punishment was seen as holding your child hostage merely for things they did wrong, thereby treating your child as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context 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 was opposed to any and all punishment of a child.

How were children seen in biblical culture? Children were seen as next to God. Children were viewed by the Israelites and their Christian successors as extensions of God, namely sentries of God called to righteously judge the charity of parents and other adults towards children. They were believed to work and in hand with God to mark the landscape, and the people in it, as either saved or unsaved based on how much they cared about children. Children were seen as having a specific deity that was representative of God, and parents were expected by everyone in society to seek to win over the good graces of their children. Parents would pray for mercy to through their children to God. 

Ultimately, what all these honorifics for children came down to was, in practical terms, nourishment and sustenance, meaning attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin co-sleeping. Children, in the home, ranged besides mothers, with both mother and child in the nude, with the nudity set up by society in order to ensure optimum skin-on-skin bonding time between mother and child. When mothers went out and about, children up until age 6 were wrapped up against the bare bosom of mothers, in swaddling blankets. Children past age 6 ranged beside mothers wherever they went. Mothers used skin-on-skin comforting strategies to comfort crying children of all ages, with mothers co-snuggling with children in order to soothe their upsets. Fathers stood guard, wielding a rod and staff in order to beat intruders (meaning NOT children) who posed a danger to his family. Fathers also formed a secure attachment with their children, after witnessing skin-on-skin bonding between mother and children. Fathers usually developed a sexual attachment to their children, of the connotational type, usually to daughters. Fathers were instructed by church leadership to follow the sexual thoughts about their children to the end using masturbatory fantasy. Daughters usually had an attraction to fathers that lasted until puberty, leading to a mutually unrequited sexual dynamic between father and child. Child sexual abuse, in biblical times, was very rare, but when it did happen, it was seen as deserving of death. 

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast 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 forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Original sin: Why every single adult was born in original sin

The doctrine of original sin is the most misunderstood and misused of any Christian teaching. But, at the same time, the doctrine of original sin is the backbone of Christianity. Without original sin, there would be no reason for a Christ. Most parents think that their children are born in sin, and thus we need to "beat the devil out of them". Maybe children are born with a flawed nature, but shouldn't we be focusing on our own sins? 

It says in Romans 3:9-18 KJV:

What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the ways of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. 

This passage was written to the Roman Christians in the 1st Century. The Roman Christians were becoming very prideful and boastful in their practice of Christianity. The Apostle Paul was convicting them of their original sin by listing all of the ways the Roman Christians were like the Roman pagans. Today, this passage is a testament to how God feels about humanity in general. God hates all mankind, so much that He doesn't want us to even exist in relation to Him. By default, all mankind is marked for deletion. Only a few of us - the elect - will be saved. The rest of mankind will suffer the second death, which is the lake of fire and brimstone, suffering eternity in Hell away from God. One main reason why God hates us is the one-sided incursion of adult-kind onto child-kind. We all, as depraved and decadent adults, are deserving of absolutely nothing but DEATH and PUNISHMENT merely for existing in relation to children. Children are sentries of God called to spy on parents and other adults, in order to measure their charity and report directly to God. Sentries of God is how children were seen in Ancient Israel and the Early Church.

The Greek root word denoting entitlement, including parental entitlement, and cross-referencing the Tenth Commandment, is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and is defined as, officially speaking, wanting things from children, to the point of imposition. Unofficially speaking, parental entitlement refers to wanting anything from children, period. It is good not to want anything in life, including from children. However, since we all want things from children as depraved and decadent adults, it is good to ask politely and appropriately, accepting when children can't or won't give us what we want. Want is the very core of our sinful nature, and wants from children is the very core of our wants. We as adults are depraved and decadent sinners, who are deserving of absolutely nothing, from children or anyone else.

The most common sin nature of adults in America is parent anger. Many parents think it is good to motivate your parenting with anger. However, anger seeks to control the child, and impose wants onto children, which is entitlement. Also, children in biblical times were seen as sacrosanct, meaning they could not judge under righteous judgment. The biblical view of anger is that it is only allowed to be used in righteous judgment, and since children can't be judged, no anger at any child is ever acceptable.

How do you purge parent anger? Parent anger can be purged affectively by quitting anger cold turkey, namely by purging all anger the moment it surfaces. At the same time, a parent should declare themselves a depraved and entitled sinner who is deserving of absolutely nothing, from children or anyone else. Once that declaration is made, parent anger should end up being turned inward, towards yourself, then percolating to nothing. This should lead to more gratitude towards your child, and seeing less fault in your child. The first step to declaring yourself a depraved and entitled sinner is seeing fault in your own anger. You, as a parent, are entitled to absolutely nothing from your child. Everything coming from your child, respect and all, is to be earned, or else not experienced at all by the parent from a child. The more you refrain from demanding things from children, all the while declaring yourself a sinner deserving of absolutely nothing, the less you will demand, until you demand none from your child. After a while of not demanding from your child, your parent anger will become out of practice, and will dissipate in the mind. Humbling yourself like this in front of your child purges all parent anger. 

Parent attraction is another form of parental entitlement, and can be dealt with by knowing that approaching a child for sexually entitled purposes is unlawful and wrong. Due to the strong nature of sexual desire, it is good to tar yourself as dirty in relation to the prospect of approaching a child for sexual reasons, also considering the possibility of burning in Hell. The unrequited lusts should then be followed to the end through masturbatory fantasy, encapsulating the sexual desires for children in the brain.

Most parents and other adults focus on the sinful nature of children. Children may well have sinful traits at times, as no human being is perfect. However, it is about time that we as adults focused on our own sins, not the sins of children. Children do engage in behavior that could be considered sinful, but we cut them a break because they are learning right from wrong, and they are learning preferably at their own pace. Adults are the actual sinners, and adults need to own up for their sinful nature. Then, that non-entitled attitude will be passed down from parent to child.

The parent entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast 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 forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Hebrews 12:5-11: Why this passage is not a pro-spanking passage

Many parents use the Bible as an excuse for punishing children. This is a common attitude amongst American parents. Most American parents believe that punishment and controlling demeanor towards children is not only recommended in the Bible, but commanded in the Bible. The fact of the matter, however, is that the Bible does not command punishing a child in any way, and in fact prohibits the punishment of children.

It says in Hebrews 12:5-11 KJV:

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as sons, for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers in his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Hebrews 12:5-11 is one of my favorite passages - and it has nothing to do with parenting earthly children. The Greek root word translated "scourgeth" is μαστιγόω (Latin: mastigóo) and refers here, literally speaking, to the rod of correction, meaning the 40 minus 1 lashes with the rod of correction. However, the rod of correction can have a figurative meaning when mentioned in the Bible. In Jewish culture, there exists rod language, meaning, in Israel, when you had a bad day at work, you would say "God whipped me good". God chastens up His children, meaning God whips His children into shape, like only He can. If human beings whipped their children the way God whips us, that would lead to harm to children. The chastening of the Lord, literally speaking, refers to everyday events that cause stress - with the right complexion, meaning the Christian complexion, the stressors of every day should make one stronger once you get through them. God regularly sends stressors to the Christian to chasten them up and strengthen them. If something caused trauma, it comes from the devil, not God. Whippings were not a part of law enforcement in the Early Church, literally speaking. In the Early Church, nobody got whipped. The cat o' nine tails was a form of judicial corporal punishment in Ancient Rome, but the Early Christians were pacifists, and did not practice corporal punishment of any kind. Evildoers in the Early Church were instead excommunicated.

The Greek root word translated "chastisement" and "corrected" is παιδεία (Latin: paideia) and refers to non-entitlement to the level of undeservingness. A disciplined man knows he is deserving of absolutely nothing, and should be grateful for absolutely everything, as he knows that he is a depraved and decadent sinner in relation to God and neighbor. This attitude chastens up the Christian and creates a new person, and turns stressful rough patches in life into opportunities to toughen up and be chastened up. Fathers, in biblical times, did discipline their children, but only by encouraging when children built self-discipline on their own, with the encouragement coming in the form of challenging the child to chasten themselves up and discipline themselves in the Lord, and also by reading Scripture with the child. Fathers did not, ever, whip their children in order to discipline them. The challenge children were put up to was made into a game of "truth or dare".

Heb. 12:5-11 refers to how God parents His children, not how earthly parents should raise their children. God wants earthly parents to use natural methods of raising children, namely attachment parenting. Christian attachment parenting is based on the doctrine of mutual submission. Parents bear the burden of proof in a parent-child relationship. See Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged.

The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers to secure, vulnerable rest in the love and grace of parents. Children are to rest securely in the sacrifice of parents, just as parent believers rest securely in the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Parents are to be extensions of Christ in the family home, submitting to children as one would God, expecting absolutely nothing in return, with children resting safely and securely in the submission of parents. Children are to rest safely and securely in the presence of parents, trusting them in everything, following mothers especially around like a gosling to a mother goose. 

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, coming from entitlement. This commandment was intended by the Apostle Paul, and understood in its original context, as a moral statute prohibiting all forms of punitive parenting, including any punishments or controlling demeanor. In the Old Testament, punitive parents were put to death by way of bloodletting, after punishing their children one last time. 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 they did wrong, thereby treating them as a quartered slave. Paul here was lifting up this legal context 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.

How were children treated in biblical times? Children were seen, in biblical times, as extensions of God, meaning installments of God appointed to be righteous judges of the charity of parents or other adults (see Matt. 25:31-46). Children were seen as having a deity of their own, that was representative of God, and parents sought to win over the good graces of that deity which was their child. In parenting manuals, parents were told that if they didn't try to win over the deity of their child, and neglected just one iota of the listed needs of their children, they would burn in Hell. Parents sought to avoid incurring the wrath of their children, fearing the upsets of their children, blaming themselves and not their children when their children were mad at them, scrambling to do better next time as caregivers. Ancient Israel and the Early Church were child worshipping societies, not child sacrificing societies. 

The honorifics that children were spoken of in ultimately referred to nourishment and sustenance, meaning attachment parenting items such as breastfeeding and skin-on-skin co-sleeping. Children, up until age 6, were wrapped up against the bosom of mothers in swaddling blankets. In the home, children ranged next to their mothers, sometimes clinging to her. When children were crying or upset, mothers held their children next to them in mammary closeness. Mother and child both snuggled and cuddled at home, with both parties being in the nude, in order for mothers to provide optimum skin-on-skin comfort. Fathers stood guard in order to protect the mother and child, wielding a rod and staff in order to whip intruders (meaning NOT children) with. Fathers also formed a secure attachment, usually when witnessing skin-to-skin closeness and intimacy between father and child. Fathers, however, usually developed a sexual attachment to their children, usually of the connotational type. Church leadership recommended to fathers that they follow the sexual thoughts of their children through masturbatory fantasy. Daughters also had a sexual attachment towards their fathers that usually only came out in masturbation, creating a mutually unrequited sexual dynamic between father and daughter. Actual child sexual abuse was very rare in biblical times, but when it happened, it was seen as deserving of death.

The depraved and entitled parents who provoke their children to anger through punitive parenting will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them be forever cast into the lake of fire and burning sulfur, which is the second death prepared for Satan and his accomplices! Ler them descend into the abyss which is the ever-burning Hell of fire and torment, suffering God's Wrath forever and ever! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Coming out about my pedophilia

Many people misunderstand the label "pedophile". Pedophilia is NOT a choice or a behavior. Pedophilia is also NOT a sexual orientation that can be acted upon in a future context. I am a pedophile, and pedophilia is my mental health self-diagnosis. I myself have my pedophilic disorder in remission, but it used to be bad. Pedophilic disorder, as a mental disorder, can come in many forms, usually self-hatred that does not fit any other category. In my case, I have a "love" addiction.

What is "love" addiction? It is infatuation towards all the wrong targets, meaning targets that are wrong for you, or when you are all wrong for them. Pedophilia, for some of us, is a "love" addiction. I would become fixated on, and obsessed with, individual young girls at the local swimming area. What did I want with them? At the back of my mind, I wanted a sleepover, where I would snuggle with them in their bed, all with ulterior sexually entitled intent of course. 

I have to be very careful. I have tarred myself, and my own fate, in relation to a child. If I even approach a child for sexually entitled purposes, I will go to Hell - for the entitlement alone. The prospect of eternity in Hell is so frightening to me that I don't even think of approaching children anymore for sexually entitled purposes.

I am a depraved and decadent sinner, who is deserving of absolutely nothing, from children or anyone else. I am deserving of everything coming to me, including any hatred or resentment from children that I may face. I am a depraved and decadent sinner, deserving of nothing but DEATH and PUNISHMENT merely for existing in relation to children. Not even affection. Not even forgiveness. I am grateful for the forgiveness from all the children I have abused, as I deserve none of it.

Every adult should take my repentant stance, for I am a convicted adult and abuser, who is deserving of absolutely nothing, from children or anyone else. I am deserving of God's punishment, and grateful for all I have, since I deserve none of it for being the sinful wretch that I am.