[keepinghome]

I posted a link about the death on my facebook and my Pearl-ite friend responded with a quote from the Pearls about loving your children before training them and having a good relationship with them and how this death has nothing to do with their material. I was like well, we could swap Pearl quotes all day long so I just didn't say anything. Then she retaliated and posted a ton of quotes from this amish-type guy (very much Michael Pearls twin, beard and all) on "training" your children. She even commented on a picture of his daughters about how "blessed" they are and how she wishes she were his daughter (she is a married woman!).

Anyways, I saw a woman commented on a link my friend posted on "Training Your Children". The woman said spanking was not biblical and she was immediately attacked with rod scripture verses. So, I had to comment to back her up (I later found out it was my friend's mother. Poor grandma doesn't want her one year old grandbaby being switched in the name of Jesus anymore!). I said that spanking is not biblical and that if you look at the original hebrew language the word used is na'ar which means adolescent boy. I even offered to buy my friend the Samuel Martin book - Thy Rod And Thy Staff. Then they said... well, they said a lot of things as you can imagine. about how I am wrong about God (I said He is patient with us and doesn't give us the same physical consequence for every sin committed) and that I must have some sort of demon spirit telling me that there is a flaw in scripture, and that we shouldn't have to look to the Hebrew language to understand scripture correctly. Someone also responded saying there are other meanings for na'ar than just adolescent boy (actually they got mad at me for saying "adolescent boy" saying there isn't such a thing...). I didn't respond to that, I couldn't think up a response that would be well received by those viewing translators above original authors.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything... it just breaks me heart to hear things like this. And I know if the Mama would have just read something GBD before TTUAC it would be so different (she is totally on board with all other AP things). Its very scary the place the Pearls have in her heart. Should I have gone about it a different way? Taken a different approach? I thought the whole na'ar thing was pretty foolproof.


From now on I'm going to purpose to give any expecting mama (even those I just know through the internet, like this mama was) a GBD book in hopes of saving her from this poison.