Hi.
Regarding the biblical (and generally accepted, by bible-believing Christians) instruction re. the corporal punishment of children - something I've always found abhorrent, 'though I'm not a perfect, wise, all-knowing God! - I've not seen anywhere in the OT ('though there might well be some I've missed) where it states what such punishment is to be administered for specific offenses.
I'd be interested in hearing in any light on the subject.
I think it’s important that punishment is coming from love , from protecting someone from a bad path early on. Abuse is one thing that’s condemned by the lord , punishment for knowinly rebelling and doing wrong is absolutely biblical and necassary
I don’t think we should be acting fro. Anger and frustration but parents need to discipline and take time to think and be calm first and hash out what a proper consewuence is
I’m an old man now I grew up in a different world as a child from children now. It was legal for parents to punish children basically anyway they saw fit .
in my youth this led to many children bieng abused d law enforcement turning blind eye to a lot of terrible things.
I was blessed I received maybe 5 spankings in my life it stung a little and I cried but more from the steepness of my parents demeanor when I had disobeyed
mostly I lost privileges and things along those lines but sometimes looking back I needed a harsh word and spanking because I eas a hard head sometimes it didn’t hurt me it actually taught me a lesson
I knew there would always be a consequence good or bad based on my behavior I eas taught what eas acceptable and expected raised by amazing people but also I knew I had boundaries and if I strayed I had trouble coming. I never felt unloved or abused but it was a different world then
the household was a sacred and much more private place and a child really was at random with whatever parents they got some got terrible abused back then
I dont think it’s always a literal “ rod “ that’s needed for discipline often a privilege or something fun being taken for a time does wonders sometimes though there’s a line in my own opinion ion where corporal punishment is actually necassary and is what love needs to do to get an important message across depending on the kid
anywho just my thoughts
but no there’s no list of this act requires two lashes or this act requires three in the ot in the new ot actually teaches parents to exercise patience , forebearance , and also discipline when necassary
but it teaches us not to be too harsh and embitter children also were meant to love them first and teach them how to do that to others sometimes punishment is a necassary part of love for correction and rebuke to teach a lesson and change a course
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