What the Bible Says About Children

So a few words about what the bible says about children:

Children who refuse to obey their parents must be executed.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. -- Deuteronomy 21:18-21

He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. -- Exodus 21:15

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 21:17

Children who mock their parents will have their eyes plucked out by ravens and eaten by eagles.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. -- Proverbs 30:17

Like Abraham, parents should be willing to kill their children for God.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and ... offer him there for a burnt offering.... And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. -- Genesis 22:2,10

God killed all the firstborn children in an entire country.

The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon.... And there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. -- Exodus 12:29-30

Sometimes God kills children for misbehaving.

And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. -- 2 Kings 2:23-24

Someday God will force parents eat their own children.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat. -- Leviticus 26:29

And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters. -- Deuteronomy 28:53

And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend. -- Jeremiah 19:9

And then there's this statement, which could only be found in the Bible:

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. -- Psalm 137:9

I don't guess God is a fan of children? I don't know what is more frightening, that people actually think the Bible is a book of morality, or that this kind of writing is in the hands of millions who take the bible literally. Do they follow ALL scriptures? Take it ALL literally? They say they do. How many of them would actually kill their children for disobedience? Let's face it folks, there would be no one left on earth! Sure, I could use these verses to scare my kids into minding me, but isn't that child abuse? Could you imagine me in the middle of a grocery store telling my kids "Get your hands off of that and put it back on the shelf, or I am going to kill you!" How many dirty looks would I get? I bet if you asked anyone giving you dirty looks if they believed in the bible they would say yes. Do you take the scripture literally? 'Of course!' they would exclaim. Then start qouting some of the above scripture, and see if they do not call you a loon! See if some one doesn't report you to child protective services. I can see they judge now, the children removed from the home, sent into foster care. Why? because it is CRAZY!! The judge would tell you 'common sense tells us this is unacceptable' yet the scripture is accepted on a weekly basis in the pew of every Christian church. It just doesn't compute. Threatening a child in ANY manner, whether it is physically, emotionally, or mentally is child abuse. I can't think of anything more emotionally scarring than telling your child that the bible is acceptable. I can think of nothing more abusive than telling your child that if they do not accept, against all logic, having an invisible friend, they will burn eternally. I do not know how any parent could tell this to their child, I could not tell this crap to mine. And why do Christians bitch when you point this out to them? simple, they were unaware it was in there, they have probably NEVER read their bible thoroughly. They do not WANT it pointed out to them, it might make them rethink their bible, possibly their god! you know? kind of like if I do not see the starving children on TV, they just don't exist. Makes life easier if you do not know the cold hard truth.

Before you let a Christian tell you that the old laws were done away with when Jesus came, might want to direct them to Matthew 5:17 where Jesus tells folks "Don't misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose."

Then let them explain.