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Originally Posted by relizabeth
Not to be trite, truly...
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I really believe that. Proverbs are word pictures, metaphors, and the pictures aren't very clear unless we understand the context and language in which they were written. The links to studies from pp's are really helpful.
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500 hundred years from now if someone was studying our local colloquialisms and read phrases like:
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away"
Would they be more accurate to interpret this as "If I eat an apple every single day I will never be sick" or "Eating healthy will help you be a healthy person".
However, I think spanking theology takes it even further because they say, "
God has promised that if you eat an apple each day you will never be sick." and then adds, "You must make sure it is the right kind of apple, the right size, and you take this certain size of bites" so then when it doesn't "work" they say, "Well they didn't do it right"
Thing is, all those extra little rules about "always in love" "explain first" "reconnect after" etc... they're not in the Bible at all
It seems to me what spanking theology says is that God has created this system in which a child's heart can only be reached by hitting them on the bottom
Because if that's not true then spanking wouldn't be required right? But then we get back to understanding what the proverbs really are. Proverbs poetry, they're not literal, to read a proverb literally is to completely ignore one of the most basic rules of an accurate translation-which is to understand the style of the writing your are interpreting.
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