We? So, you also believe incorrigible sons should be stoned?
Before you get too hasty, study the scriptures about obeying valid laws of men.
The laws of the land would not permit any parent to thus do away with an incorrigible son.
Every child (except Jesus) does not obey their parents all the time. I had to be reminded, over and over again, of many things, when I was a child. My children are the same way.
I have never met an incorrigible child, have you? I've met plenty of spoiled children, but none that were bad beyond correction or reform.
I think that, most parents being what they are, they would not give up hope for a child, until that child had proven, as an adult, that he was incorrigible. But some parents, no matter what, never give up hope, never give up praying for their children.
Those parents are not breaking God's law, on what to do with an incorrigible child, if they haven't given up hope for that child. As long as they still have hope, as long as they still have the will and strength to love their child, there is rational reason to believe that child is not bad beyond correction.
That law, therefore, was given as a just and valid solution for such a problem, but I believe the spirit of that law is to instill proper "fear of God" into some of the worst cases who wouldn't listen to any other kind of reason.
Why are you so interested in this particular law? You said you are not a sinner, in an earlier post, so you must have been a thoroughly loving, perfectly obedient son.
Do you have any acquaintances who are incorrigible?
John |
