The following article is just stupid!!!! Mental health problems happen in children who are not disciplined through corporal punishment. Time out is an isolation technique similar to "the silent treatment." This silent treatment causes more harm than a good wack after which the child is allowed to remain with the family. Isolation has been used by torturers to confuse, frustrate and destroy a child's confidence.
Spanking can be akin to a child getting burned once from a stove and learning not to place his hand near the burner. It teaches that bad behavior will bring punishment, but does not reach the soul of the child as does isolation.
Isolation can do far more damage in a child than a couple of swats to stop a behavior. The spanking deals with behavior, but isolation affects the emotional stability of the child, causing him to feel unwanted and unloved, somewhat like those cliques at school or church where people are left out if they don't measure up to the social standards of the crowd.
http://wnep.com/2016/04/27/spanking-can-cause-mental-health-problems-in-children-study-suggests/
Matthew 22:29 "But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God."
There are many people who know the Scriptures, even knowing them well, who have little to no wisdom when it comes to truth.
The devil knows the Scriptures better than all of us, but we know where he is going. Knowing is far different from desiring to obey. Knowing is far different from loving Christ.
To love Him is to obey Him, to love Him is to want to know His mind being guided by Him continually.
1 Corinthians 2:16 "…15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ."
John 14:15-16 "15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16 "I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you FOREVER;…"
It all started with the "self esteem" teaching. More people are concerned about being accepted by the culture than they are about holiness or righteousness. When the culture changes, allowing for the evil in man to be practiced without challenge, then the evil will come out, showing us what was really inside all along.
1 Timothy 1:8-10 "…8 But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully, 9 realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers 10 and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,…"
When we become born again Christ changes our heart, we no longer want the sin we used to love, we begin to desire the mind of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. "...
Jeremiah 24:7
"'I will give them a heart to know Me, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart."
Ezekiel 36:26
"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. "
Romans 2:29
"But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that which is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter; and his praise is not from men, but from God. "
Psalm 51:10
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. "
2 Corinthians 7:10
"For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death."
Ezekiel 11:19
"And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,"
Romans 12:2
"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. "
