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Solomon’s Spanking Hypocrisy
By Patricia Backora
Millions of tiny children live in fear because their parents look for reasons to beat them, in the name of Christ. Proverbs stands alone in commanding children to be beaten. But it also commands:
1. Fools must be beaten with rods (Prov.26:3) If your pastor told a dirty joke, would this punishment be carried out?.
2. A fool should get his mouth slapped (Prov.18:6). Do church folks practice this on each other?
3. Hold a knife to your throat if you like to eat a lot (Prov.23:2).
4. Those who disrespect their parents will get their eye picked out and eaten by a bird (Prov.13:17) How many of you have ever had God forgive you for not treating your parents right, while still keeping both your eyes afterward?
5. Thieves must repay SEVEN times what they stole, and forfeit all their possessions as a fine (Prov.6:30-31). If the deacon pinched five bucks from the church till, would the pastor force him to donate all his belongings to the church? Probably not.
6. Simple people who don’t have all the answers should get their backs beaten (Prov.10:13). Jesus praised God for revealing His teachings to babes instead of wise men (Matt.11:25; Luke 10:21). Solomon taught the supreme importance of gaining wisdom, but failed to use it to stay out of trouble.
7. Fools should be beaten with a mortar and pestle (Prov.27:22) How often is this enforced in church today?
Solomon’s life left a legacy of cruelty. Solomon wasn’t supposed to enslave the Israelite people, and technically he didn’t (I Kings 9:22). But he charged back-breaking taxes and oppressed his people to the point of rebellion (2 Chron.10:18; I Kings 12:4). Solomon forced his subjects to “volunteer” for his building projects (I Kings 5:13-18).
After Solomon died, the people pleaded with his successor, Prince Rehoboam, to go easier on them than his dad did. But rough, rude Rehoboam threatened his subjects with scorpions instead of the whips his father had used on them (I Kings 12:11). Solomon, praised by spanking advocates and Christian family authors as the world’s greatest child rearing expert, departed from God in his later years when his multitude of wives seduced him to worship idols. Some types of idols weren’t just figurines on a shelf. They were big, nasty, ugly brutes that had to be fed, literal furnaces which consumed living sacrifices. Solomon built child-eating idols (Molech and Chemosh) to please these heathen women (I Kings 11:7). Pagans sacrificed to Molech and Chemosh to ensure a good harvest. Neither god would settle for chickens. Screaming children were literally thrown alive into flames as sacrifices to these satanic gods (Lev.18:21; 20:2).
In Israel, Sacrificing your children to Molech was punishable by being stoned to death. But this didn’t stop Solomon from sponsoring Molech worship (or worshipping heathen gods himself). So when it comes to dealing with children (or people in general), who should you listen to, Molech-manufacturer Solomon or gentle Jesus?
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Nevertheless, Christ is the very Word of God, from the Old Testament to the New, proclaiming, as He did, the end of time from the beginning of time, Who was not merely with God, but was God, and became flesh for us to see how God would live as a man, as the first born of the new creation which men may become by embracing and emulating the Son who is the very image of the Father, as we know our God from old. Therefore, this same God--Christ--was responsible for all the wrath He used Israel and many a pagan nation to carry out on His enemies, whether among the people of Israel or elsewhere, in execution of His righteous judgement, which behavior He boldly declares many a time all over the old testament; this same "gentle Jesus", as you selectively refer to Him, Who made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle, pouring out the coins of the money changers and overturning their tables. Likewise, this same "gentle Jesus" has yet to return, as He says of Himself, in judgement, with a sword, Who pronounced that He did not come to bring peace on earth but that very same sword--the weapon of His self-fulfilling and all powerful Word--and Who is to separate the wheat from the tares, and cast those awful tares into an eternal fire stoked by His very wrath.
This same God--Christ--proclaimed to the man Solomon, whose enduring words have been published in the Book of God, that "[He] will give [Solomon] a wise and discerning heart so that there will never have been anyone like [Solomon], nor will there ever be", whose wisdom was so famous that nobility traveled great distances to hear of his wisdom, which the Queen of Sheba professed as surpassing even the man's widespread reputation--reputation which we know to so often exceed the less magnanimous reality in working upon each listener's imagination.
Jesus, when walking the earth in the likeness and form of sinful man, prior to His death and glorified, resurrected body, compared His wisdom to no other man but Solomon, saying, "One who is wiser than Solomon is here." Thus it comes as no surprise that Christ, the Son of God, (God Himself, as it were), tells us, in Hebrews 12:6, no less, (a new testament Scripture), that whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.
Therefore, in listening to the man, Solomon, whom God filled with His wisdom, and whose profitable speech endures in the published Work of God, having been spoken by that chosen, human vessel under the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit, as all God's writers spoke, the man who Ecclesiastes 12 tells us that not only was this Teacher wise, teaching the people knowledge, pondering, searching out, and arranging many proverbs, but that, this God-inspired scribe, also sought to find just the right words, and so to record accurate words of Truth--it seems that, in listening to what God has published by the hands and the mouth of this sinful man, that to do so is not indeed to heed man over Christ, (over God, truly), but, quite contrastingly as it would appear, to in fact heed God as though it were direct, Who ever works His transcendent and miraculous Will through sinful and undeserving man, as He always Has and will continue to do.