Double Portion Inheritance: Child Discipline According to the Creator: Should Parents Spank? Part 1 (06/21/2012)

A video turned up this week on youtube.com that went viral with over a million viewers showing an elderly woman being mercilessly taunted and bullied by middle-school-aged children on a school bus. Karen Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor spoke out telling the “Today Show’s” Matt Lauer how awful she felt when those children taunted and threatened her.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xr34D0dI64&feature=related This video of these kids bullying this poor elderly woman has enraged the consciousness of our nation. But most Americans need to realize that our own society has contributed to this incident. Fifty years ago when children were spanked in schools by their teachers, this would never have happened. But, today, the pendulum has swung too far the other direction. Because of society over-reacting to child abuse they have thrown out the proverbial “baby with the bathwater” by not allowing biblical discipline in the form of spanking on the buttocks. As a result, today the children are abusing the adults! There have been many cases now of children killing their parents and teachers. This is what happens when people throw out the Bible’s instructions and they instead implement their own ideas. Leviticus 19:32 You shall rise up before the gray haired (hoary head), and honour the face of the old man, and fear your Elohiym: I am YaHuWaH. Our society is to blame for this despicable behavior of these children because they have been brain-washing us to believe that spanking children is “child abuse.” But just the opposite is true. Neglecting to spank our children (the biblical way) is child abuse. In fact we are told by our Creator that if we withhold the rod of correction from their bottoms that we are showing that we “hate” our children. If we spank our children for willful disobedience and wrong attitudes we are actually delivering their souls from Hell: Proverbs 13:24 He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him betimes (diligently). Proverbs 23: 13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat (spank) him with the rod, he shall not die. 14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. We are commanded by our creator to spank (beat) the bottoms of our children in order to “drive out the foolishness” or the “evil inclination” that we are all born with! Taking away privileges or grounding children does not work! Only the “rod of correction” drives out the evil inclination from children: Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. The Hebrew word for “rod” here is: #7626 Shebet: rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, staff, shaft of spear, dart, club (of shepherd's implement). Contrary to popular belief, the rod is NOT a metaphor for the “Torah” as some try to purport. It is a literal branch from a tree. Sin was nailed to a tree and a tree is used to punish the sinful nature. See my blog entitled: “Child Discipline According to the Creator: Should Parents Spank?” http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/05/child-discipline-according-to-creator.html