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Where did this idea of spanking is bad come from anyway? It didn't come from our parents, so where did it come from?
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The short answer, mankind's growing enchantment and seduction with and by Psychologists--and I disagree, it did come from parents. Not our parents so much, but the new-age modern parents of today who have totally bought-in to the lines of the Psychologists and social engineers about the proper way of rearing children. As a result, our children are a disgrace to the name Christian. It is the parents today who have not trained up their children in the way that they should go (according to scripture) but have deferred this discipline, schooling and utelage to the words of men.
Proverbs 22:6- "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
When God commands His people to train their children, it is literally instructing them to discipline, to initiate a Biblical dedication to Godly behavior, which to a large degree is what is missing from today's so-called Christian homes. In Proverb 22:6 God has commanded His people to be committed to the formation of their children's character tomorrow, by training them today while they are young and impressionable. Yet very few Christians (generally speaking) take these words of God very seriously. So yes, it is coming from the parents. It is because they don't really "believe" proverbs 22:6 or the many other passages where God instructs us in the correct way to discipline concerning children. They've fallen victim to the trickery, guile, ruse and deceit of the great deceiver, the spirit of disobedience who is the father of lies. They have washed their hands of responsibility, but it is in vain.
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And how is an idea that has stood for thousands of years all of a sudden become child abuse?
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It hasn't, but it is perceived as such because of a constant indoctrination and the unfaithfulness of God's people. It is perceived as cruel and abusive because in our day there is a spiritual degradation greater than any before it. It is a declension where no one listens to the counsel of the wise to obey God's word concerning this matter, or any other matter. Instead, in their foolish heart they turn to the words of men for counsel, and that makes "man" himself their god, ruler and king.
Proverbs 12:15- "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise."
You ask how this is come to pass? The simple answer is because of the spirit of rebellion where people think or believe that they know better than the "actual word of God" what is good and proper to do. No, they won't actually say that, but in practice they believe it. They defer to the words of men "over and above" the words of God because their way
seems right in their own eyes. Consequently in their thoughts and estimations the counsel of God seems archaic, obsolete, antiquated, uncharitable and foolish. They are
deceived, not realizing that their actions claim for themselves the entitlement, authority and prerogatives of God. They have become as lawless man where they are no longer ruled by God but are themselves the arbiter of law in God's house.
Daniel 7:25- "And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time."
Their thoughts are to change the times and to change the laws, and they refuse to receive the love of truth (or truth in love) that they might be saved. You can witness until you are blue in the face and they will reject God's counsel every time, "choosing" to instead defer to the social engineers, Psychologists, doctors and authors. It is nothing less than a rejection f God as Lord, and acceptance of man as ruler and potentate.
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nosce te ipsum"
Peace,
Tony Warren
"I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. -Psalms 32:5"