Don’t be a hater, yldstrk.
If the way that you attack other posters as well as Dobson is an indication of your general behavior then it’s hard to believe your claims about love and patience.
You may spare the rod but you more than make up for it in verbal nastiness.
I have always been hyper sensitive about beating pets and spanking kids, ask anybody that knows me. I think parents have a duty to their kids to try to make the world at home peaceful, safe and provide for them.
So, if it makes you all feel better about spanking your kids, I will say this: I don’t have to like what you do. I don’t like it and you can’t make me like it. That being said, have at it, it’s your life, your kids, and you are the ones that will have to live with it. Not the way I’d do it, buy hey, I guess that’s none of my business.
Got it? Quote the Bible however you wish, act on it according to your own conscience. I don’t have to agree you are right and I don’t have to like it. You don’t have to like me not liking it. You don’t have to agree with me or try to convince me. That’s what makes horseraces.
Maybe when we all get to Heaven God will say “yldstrk you were wrong, you should have spanked your children more.” Or “you should have just shut up when people were holding forth about the Godliness of spanking.” But I don’t recall seeing Jesus spank anyone.
So, that is best I can offer. I am not of a mind to affirm anyone’s thinking the Bible says you have to literally spank your kids. So, go on about your business, and you don’t have to affirm my interpretation either.