2006-07-27 16:36:46 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It might mean using a belt and rod but did you know the Bible also says, Beatest the child with a rod. In doing so you shall deliver their soul from hell. Not disciplining your children is also a sin
2006-07-27 16:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Ah no! read it again. Just because it says rod does mean it was intended to be meant as beat your child with rods and other not so soft objects. Just to discipline the child.lol
2006-07-27 23:42:26 · answer #2 · answered by Chrissy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to teach the child it's lesson you need to beat it with a rod or else it is spoiled
2006-07-27 23:40:53 · answer #3 · answered by Bucky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong. In context, it means correcting the child the way a shepherd uses a rod/staff to correct and direct his sheep -- so "spare the rod" means if you don't CORRECT your child you'll spoil them, not BEAT them!
2006-07-27 23:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really? I always must have misunderstood it. I thought it meant to be sparing with the rod and to spoil the child as much as possible with toys and games and candy! No wonder I was always the favourite uncle.And they all grew up to be such good parents too!
2006-07-27 23:41:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm...In Qabalistic exegesis ...the Hebrew letter "lamed" is a scourge or whip at the right shoulder (at Geburah-God's might and severity-with the order of angels "the seraphims" -God's punishers or discipliners) ...and opposite to this at Gedulah(Chesed-angelic order of the Chashmalim)-the left shoulder-God's mercy...with "Vau" a Shepard's crook ...a rod ...and a nurturing staff ...consider Moses' staff striking a stone from which nurturing waters flowed...
An interpretation of Torah like this is dependent upon an "Otz Chioth" Tree of Life mysticism ...there is argument of how old this tradition may be ...within the Hasidic tradition it is said to be as old as Torah itself ... But scholarship can prove that it is at least as old as the "Intertestamental period" ..namely the period between the Old Testament and the New Testament...as exemplified in many of the Dead Sea Scrolls- there are tractates and drawings of the Tree of Life...
But I might point out that Moses we are told practiced Egyptian mysticism ...and consider the iconography of sarcophagus ...pharoah always has a staff or sceptre on one shoulder... and a flail or scythe in the other ...
They were "severity" and "nurturing" in balance ...Ideally the scourge is applied to self ...as in "selfdiscipline" ...and the staff of nurturing to uplift and nourish those external to one's self ..
Consider growing a plant ...it is as easy to drown it in too much nurture(where it doesn't grow strong roots) ...Naturally overdisciplining is being so harsh in pruning that it cannot leaf...
But "socalled" Christians do not possess Hebrew mysticism ... so therefore they take "the rod" as its opposite ...an exhortation to discipline- rather than the exhortation to nourish that it was intended to be ... and thus they have beaten their children,misunderstanding ... The Septuagent made coarse and blatant errors here in Hebrew to Coptic Greek ... and then later Latin to Anglicised St James- terribly blundered the original sense of such passages regarding "chastisement and the rod" ...
Fundamentalism ... and literal translations (rather than the spirit of translation) ... seems to perpetuate these kind of blunders over and over again in religious cultures and "industries" ...
2006-07-28 01:07:05 · answer #6 · answered by gmonkai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn straight! That's what's wrong with the world today! Stupid folk running around and squalling like babies which coulda been solved with a good whoopin'. Parents that don't hit their kids are letting their kinds run the house. And the lot of them are going to Hell! Don't think the Lord is any more merciful...
(1 Samuel 6:19) "And He smote the men of Bethsemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with great slaughter."
Got off easy, I say!
2006-07-27 23:47:11 · answer #7 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO IT DOES NOT!!!! Back in biblical times, a rod was a unit of measure.The verse was talking about discipline.So it translates to 'If you don't use a measure of discipline, you'll have a spoiled brat to deal with, and if you loved your kid, you wouldn't let them become a spoiled brat."
2006-07-27 23:47:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It means if you don't/won't discipline your children~teach them right from wrong~ your child will be spoiled or feel "entitled" , thinking the world owes them something. Neither verbal or physical abuse is necessary to achieve the goal of raising a well rounded child.
2006-07-27 23:47:06 · answer #9 · answered by shezmet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Don't take things too literally."
Like the bible?
these out of context too?:
Parents should beat their children.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. -- Proverbs 13:24
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. -- Proverbs 22:15
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. -- Proverbs 23:13-14
2006-07-27 23:40:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋