I took interest and started thinking about what the Bible says about beating children.

I looked in the Bible at that “spare the rod” verse, because I just personally failed to believe that the Bible says children should be punished.

The verse says “He who spares his rod hates his son,
But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.”-Proverbs 13:24.

A rod was/is a tool used to guide sheep that is straying from the herd. A rod is not a whip.

They’re two different devices that are used to achieve the same thing, but in different ways.

A rod has a hook at the top, To “gently” guide the sheep.

I started thinking about psalms 23:4 that says something along the lines of
“Your rod and staff comfort me”.

So i started questioning How can a device that alludes to comfort, be the same device that advocates for physical punishment, or any sort of punishment.

So, a rod isn’t a punishment device, it isn’t a whip. As confirmed through the latter verse.

So I decided that the famous “rod” verse
doesn’t refer to discipline through punishment, whether it be physical beatings, emotional and verbal “abuse” like ways.

It refers to guiding teaching them through guidance and appropriate discipline, not through punishment.

Just another way people have been justifying unjustifiable behavior over time.

I might have reached to this conclusion with a whole lot of observer bias, but -OOP, it is what it is.

Beating children isn’t biblical, and it isn’t Christian like.