It says in:
Proverbs: 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
I mean we are commanded to beat our children n order to save them the tortures of an eternity in Hell. Rebar wrapped in a towel works great. Doesn't leave obvious bruises.
2007-12-16 08:50:51 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Metaphor my dear :) it also says not to
2007-12-16 08:53:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The rod is the Shepard's rod. The Shepard uses the rod to guide the sheep. keeping them in the herd and safe. If one sheep strays from the herd the Shepard will leave the flock to find the missing sheep. There is not one account in the Bible where a Shepard beat one of the flock. Beating is a miss interpretation here and really means guidance administered with love. A child guided by love and understanding will not die and it's soul will be delivered from hell.
The Bible does not endorse child abuse.
2007-12-16 09:04:37 · answer #2 · answered by Wise Old Witch 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part of the problem is that we think of beating a child in a different sense now. When we hear the words "beat" in todays culture we think of children who have been beaten within an inch of their life, end up in the hospital, or sometimes even killed.
The Bible is speaking of discipline. Have you ever slapped a toddlers hand to make sure they got the message that an electrical outlet is not to be touched? Well, you "beat" that child's hand.
Today I witnessed a child hitting his own mother, hard, because she would not give him what he wanted. I think a spanking was in order! Teach him real life, when you treat others that way, bad things happen to you!
Of course, the Bible also says that fathers are not to provoke their children to wrath, that clearly rules out merciless beating, since to do that would provoke the child to wrath.
2007-12-16 09:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Thrice Blessed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It endorses discipline, spare the rod spoil the child. Look at all the children who have been spared the rod, they either turn into asinine preps or punks that steal and drink and do drugs.
The notion of actually taking a fist to a child's face is horrible but a nice paddling on the backside is all good.
I myself was spanked and I have turned out fine, I attend both High School and College through a concurrent enrollment program. I have received multiple awards for my academics and I don't do drugs, smoke, or drink.
2007-12-16 08:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by shadowsblight 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not wrong ! You have quoted scripture for that very purpose. Pr. 13:24 "He that spareth his rod hateth his son". Pr. 22:15 "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him".
Pr. 29:15 "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to homself bringeth his mother to shame". I believe that a child must be corrected, but not to the EXTREME !!!!
The word rod is "shebet" in Hebrew. This word is defined as following in Strong's Hebrew Lexicon #7626: rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre.
2007-12-16 09:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by esawskid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-03 12:10:41 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "rod," my dear is a staff used to gently GUIDE sheep. The Shepherd did not beat the sheep with the rod, but GUIDED them with it, the same way we are to GUIDE our children, not by hitting them, or beating them with a stick. that's not what those verses mean. It doesn't mean to literally beat the child. It means that we must correct our children and teach them the ways of God so they can be saved, even if we have to take measures to do that.
Jesus said, "If anyone harms a little one, or causes them to sin, it would be better for them to tie a millstone around their neck and cast themself into the sea." does that sound like He wants us to beat them with a stick???? No. It doesn't.
2007-12-16 09:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I think that the Bible when saying "beatest him with the rod" is just other words for spanking the child...definately NOT abusing the child...u r sick dude!!!
2007-12-16 09:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is not the "beating" that you are thinking of. Discipline is used to correct and train people to go in the right way. "No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening - it is painful! But afterward there will be a quiet harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11).
"and now a word to you fathers. do not make your children angry by the way you treat them. rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction approved by the lord" [ephesians 6:4]. raising a child in the “discipline and instruction approved by the lord” includes restrained, corrective, and yes loving, physical discipline.
2007-12-16 08:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Silver 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Christians fictional God endorses other disgusting things also, like the mass murder of his own people. Onto the actual question though, of course Christians are going to say that the Bible verse you quoted is a metaphor now though, simply only because of the age we live in.
2007-12-16 09:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This world needs Godly parents to correct their children in a Godly way. Not correcting the child with stripes on his back is not Biblical, it is Satanic. God says use the rod on your child you will not kill him but you have to be God fearing yourself and someone your child can respect. Not a cursing, drunk with a hateful attitude.
I had a Christian mother that I have never heard curse or yell at her children but she never missed church and had us there. She had a peach limb that did the talking. She is highly respected today.
2007-12-16 08:56:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋