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One Israelite Queen Mother lost her position at court because she built
ONE idol in a grove (I Kings 15:13 and 2 Chron.15:16). Solomon
sponsored the building of countless idols, as many as his wives
demanded. But he stayed in power, though its doubtful he ever
repented of this sin.
There are multitudes of eminent men and women the Bible. But Jesus
alone is Gods beloved only-begotten Son. HEAR YE HIM (Matt.17:5).
Or, if the wife is the one to commit adultery, and she has a baby from
the affair, even if her husband can forgive her, the temptation will
always be there to resent the other mans kid. In all cases of adultery,
the children involved get hurt and find it hard to maintain the same
level of respect for their straying parents.
An even more tangled situation happens when the wife of one man
commits adultery with another womans husband. In that case, two
whole families get caught in the crossfire of bad consequences.
Sometimes the effects of sin are so devastating the affected
individuals never recover in an entire lifetime!
Christian family experts love Wesley for making it easier to sell their
spanking manuals. Wesley taught that The Rod should be used to
break the will of a child. But it can also break his heart because of the
humiliating nature of this punishment, especially when its carried to
extremes, or if the child is actually innocent of the offense. Some of
the rods Ive seen in schools and Christian homes were big enough
to shatter bones.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy (Matt.5:7). The
flip side of the coin is this: Unfortunate are the unmerciful, for they
shall NOT obtain mercy! The same mercy you show others is what you
get back from God. He takes grave offense whenever well-meaning
but deluded parents tell the child: JESUS told me to do this to help
you grow up to love Him. If anything, such a cruel approach to
parental discipline will ALIENATE THE CHILD FROM GOD when he/she
gets old enough to make up their own mind about continuing in the
faith.
God promised that if you consider your ways (judge yourself) that He
wont judge you and chasten you for your bad behavior (I Cor. 11:31-
32). Why wont Christian parents be just as merciful toward their own
little children, who are not yet mature and sometimes make mistakes?
In I Tim.3:3 and Titus 1:7 Paul taught that Christians are not to strike
anyone. NO exception is made to allow for the corporal punishment of
children. In the Old Testament, where you find the ONLY support for
corporal punishment of kids, youll find no such universal ban on
believers striking people. Instead, the Old Testament abounds with
stonings, bloody battles, collective punishment, grisly executions,
genocide, floggings, mutilation and torture of war captives.
Many contend theyll feel guilty and disobedient toward God if they
dont spank a child for every offense, just because spanking is
mentioned in the Bible. Yet these same people dont feel guilty for
disobeying other Old Testament passages. They dont feel guilty for
working on the Sabbath. They dont fear any consequences for eating
pork and lobster, both forbidden under the Law. They dont observe
ceremonial washings commanded to the Jews. They dont worry God
might go hungry if they dont roast animals on the church altar.
Just as Paul warned Christian slaveholders that they also had a Master
in heaven to fear, so God warns Christian parents that they also have a
Parent in heaven Who is watching their lives to see if Gods fruits of
kindness and mercy are blossoming in their lives as they deal with
their own tiny little children. Christians WILL have to give an account
of how they raised the most vulnerable members of their family when
they finally answer to their Maker for what they did (Rom.14:12).
If these abused kids manage to survive these rough years, they will be
emotionally scarred for life. They will have trouble forming a family of
their own or even showing affection toward others, because
gentleness, an essential fruit of the Spirit (Gal.5:22), was not shown
toward them by misguided Christian parents whose only solution to
problems was to train up their children with a strap. Only by a
restorative miracle in their souls can such injured children be made
whole and free to love and know the REAL Christ of the Bible, Who is
meek and lowly in heart (Matt.11:29).
You get the same amount of mercy you mete out to others. No more,
no less (Matt.5:7; Luke 6:38). Treat tiny precious souls like crap and
mercy and grace will be in short supply when you need it from God.
God may not send an avenging angel down from heaven with a rubber
hose, but He WILL allow painful trials and tribulations to come into
your life to correct you and wake you up to realize how much it hurts
to live without love, kindness and patience being shown toward you.
Why do cruel Christians inspect their kids soul for a tiny speck of dust
but refuse to see the logjam in their own life (Luke 6:41-42)?
Think of it. Why dont newlyweds present their bedsheets to the brides
father, aside from the fact theyd be guilty of stealing from a hotel
room? Why dont you see more Christian men taking whippings for
questioning their wives premarital virginity? Why arent more
bedsheets spread out before the church elders for closer inspection?
Why dont Christian girls ride side-saddle today to prevent internal
injuries when their horse bucks or hops over the fence? Since most
Israelite girls were married off by their families, losing their virtue
through some accident (or being born without one) could result in the
death penalty! The Old Covenant was a covenant of FEAR, and THE
SPANKING PROVERBS WERE WRITTEN BY AN IMPERFECT KING UNDER
AN IMPERFECT COVENANT, an idol worshipper who sponsored Molech
worship (I Kings 11:7). Molech was the evil god that ate children
(Jer.32:35).
Christians who still insist that Solomon was the worlds wisest child
REAR-ing expert had better take off the blinders and read their Bibles
more carefully. If you knew a modern-day preacher who worshipped
satanic idols which devoured children as burnt offerings, would you
listen to his advice on how to keep your child out of the fires of hell?
Its a no-brainer!
Christians are all gung-ho about using a paddle on kids, but where is
their feces paddle to use for personal sanitation when they cant find a
gas station toilet and have to go behind the bushes (Deut.23:12-14)?
Thats the ONLY paddle mentioned in all the Bible, and only in the KJV!
Why isolate just ONE precept out of ONE lone book out of the Old
Covenant as perpetually binding, and discard all other Old Testament
laws and admonitions? Those who insist that Christians MUST spank
children and discipline them no other way, cherry-pick just ONE
isolated verse here and there out of ONE book of the Bible, Proverbs.
They seize upon selected scriptures that validate their position (bend
over!) and never apply them to their own butt. That way they feel
better about battering their own vulnerable, defenseless child.
Even the self-righteous Pharisees enjoyed watching other Jews foul up,
just so they could claim superiority over them and rebuke them for
being imperfect. And as for YOU being the one to decide when to
allow your believing child to pray for forgiveness, HES ALREADY
FORGIVEN! As your Christian child walks in the light as Christ is in the
light, he or she already enjoys fellowship with Christ and other
believers, and the precious blood of Gods Son washes ALL his or her
sins away (I John 1:7). So why should a Christian dad want to hang
onto their childs guilt long enough to carry out a paddling and do
other things to prove what a wonderful priest he is? Ego gratification
has no place in Gods church, or in the homes of its members!
Neither Jesus nor any of the apostles EVER taught anyone to strike
anybody else for any reason. If spanking were so important, why is
this doctrine missing from the gospels and the epistles? Jesus taught
that little children are the essence of His Kingdom (Mark 10:14).
Despite the fact that Christian family experts demonize little children
as tiny imps who need to be frequently beaten in order to crucify their
fallen flesh and grow more Christlike.
These authors are raking in a big pile of money off the misery they
impose on little children through their rigid, twisted teachings. They
have gotten rich by promoting Old Testament doctrine at the expense
of the grace and mercy taught by Jesus Christ Himself.
One day these cruel, money-hungry authors who got rich from these
evil doctrines of devils (I Tim.4:1; 2 Pet.3:2-3) will stand before God
and see their dirty, dangerous work go up in flames. The Great Judge
will say to them, Depart from Me, ye who work iniquity.
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Psalms 103:10: The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 HE HATH NOT DEALT WITH US AFTER OUR SINS; NOR REWARDED
US ACCORDING TO OUR INIQUITIES.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our
transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that
fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
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