Is spanking in 1 Corinthians 13?

Love. It's what God is. It's what makes us happy and healthy. It's what bonds people in marriage. It's what makes anything hard worth doing. Love. People live for it. People die for it. 

The Bible says God is love, and tells us in 1 Corinthians 13 what love looks like...

Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is not jealous
Love does not brag
Love does not act unbecomingly
Love does not seek its own
Love is not provoked
Love does not keep a list of your wrongdoings
Love does not get excited about wrongdoing
Love rejoices with the truth
Love bears all things
Love believes all things
Love hopes all things
Love endures all things
Love always wins

We're told...

"Let all that you do be done in love."

"Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus..."

"Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

So...if you are a proponent of spanking...which aspect of Love does spanking reflect?

Is spanking patient?
Is spanking kind?
Is spanking acting becomingly? Is it pleasant to behold? Is it something you can do out in the open without shame?

If you can't fit spanking into the love chapter...maybe that's because it's not there. Maybe that's because spanking isn't an act of love...Maybe...there is no such thing as spanking in love...

Oh, my God! You just broke the 3rd Commandment!!

I have often thought that the Bible just has too many words, ya know?


What if the Bible were only the 10 Commandments...and the one command that Jesus says fulfills the whole law, "Love your neighbor as yourself."

In the time that Jesus lived, the Jews took saying things against God SO SERIOUSLY...that Jesus was killed for it. Jesus got the death penalty for insinuating that He was God.

Would Jesus get even a slap on the hand from modern Christians for insinuating something about God these days?

Exodus 20:7 

“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

In the list of 10 no-no's...there are things like murder, envy, adultery...and there is this "not taking the Lord's name in vain." And, modern Christians have come to believe that this simply means we're not supposed to say, "Good Lord!" or "Oh my God!"

Really?

Taking the Lord's name in vain...is when you attribute to God something that's not Him at all. 

Example...once upon a time I was part of a ladies' group and this lady gave a praise report...she'd wrecked her mini-van but it happened a week after she was really busy with visitors and so she thanked God for "His timing" of her accident?

Really? 

Such nonsensical attributions to God have marred His awesomeness in the world and turned this world into a world where people accept that bad comes from God...and have rejected Him because of it. Such careless attributions to God for tragedies like miscarriages, tragic deaths, and all other things that involve the world being "stolen from, killed, and having their lives destroyed" (satan's job) have made it so that we live in a world where Christians cannot see how much of an attack on God's character the assertion is that God wants us to hit/spank innocent little children.

Deuteronomy 5:11 

‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Instead of being punished for spouting nonsense about God, people nod their heads and say, "Amen!"

We've gotten so far from protecting God's character from blasphemy with stoning people and giving Jesus the death sentence...to now applauding people who misrepresent God in gross ways...like this...

The failure to protect God's character and keep the 3rd Commandment to not take the Lord's name in vain...has led us to a world where Christians openly and proudly publicly profess that they hit their children in God's name.

To this common occurrence in my world, on this Easter Morning in 2014, I say, "Oh my God..." God help us.

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!