Spanking of Children to Be Banned – but 12-Year-Olds Given Access to Contraceptives
Such arrogance is nauseating in the extreme. But it is to be expected from the ANC, made up as it is of men and women of extreme arrogance, convinced that they, and they alone, know what is best for every man, woman and child in South Africa. And so they seek to impose their own warped and perverted morality on the entire country, by means of legislation. This is always how Communists work: they believe themselves to be of superior wisdom and knowledge to everyone else, who have the absolute right to order everyone else to conform to their ideas and philosophy, and to punish those who dare to refuse.
The ANC chairwoman of the select committee on Social Services, Joyce Masilo, described the bill’s passing as “wonderful”. “We worked long and hard on this and believe it will make a huge difference in the lives of children, especially in rural areas,” she said.
To which we reply, simply: just who do these people think they are? They are not God, they are not infallible, they are not experts, they do not have greater wisdom than the generations before them. They are arrogant, power-drunk people, full of their own self-importance.
This same government, years ago, legalised abortion in South Africa, and hundreds of thousands of babies have since then been legally murdered in their mothers’ wombs. The obscene irony here is that a mother is allowed by law to murder her unborn child by abortion, and yet, once the child is born, she is not allowed to spank him! It is now going to be a crime to raise one’s hand, or a rod, to a child and spank him on the bottom, and yet it is entirely legal to insert instruments into the womb of a woman and to painfully snuff out the life of an unborn child! Legal to violently murder a child, illegal to reasonably spank his bottom! Truly, the world is insane. The ANC government is passing insane legislation. But we are not surprised. We can expect nothing less from this terrorist organisation.
The Bible, of course, in the book of Proverbs, directly commands parents to use the rod in disciplining their children. “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes” (Prov. 13:24). “Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying” (Prov. 19:18). “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him” (Prov. 22:15). “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell” (Prov. 23:13,14). “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame” (Prov. 29:15).
Now in South Africa, Christian parents will be faced with obeying the Lord in this matter, or obeying man. And there can be absolutely no question of what every Christian parent has to do: “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). The Lord in His Word has taught us the right way of raising children. No man, and no government, has the authority to forbid us from doing that which the Lord God has commanded! We are to obey God in this matter, even if it means disobeying man. There is no ambiguity about this, no uncertainty, no question mark. To do anything less would be to sin against our Lord, and to sin against the children the Lord has given to us.
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