“SSPX or a sedevacantist”
I would have to look those terms up, so as far as I know, I am not. Just Catholic.
So once again, believe what you want, you are undoubtedly right in your own reality, as someone I know used to say.
You know, intelligent people know that the scriptures are true on many levels, and that a shepherd uses his rod to guide, not to strike or beat and that symbolism is used again and again—a caution to the literalist............
If you reject V2 then you fit into at least one. And by excluding any literal meaning of discipline by the “rod” then you reveal yourself to be a liberal who is conforming Scripture to your doctrine.
“Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. “ (Proverbs 23:14)
“A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back. “ (Proverbs 26:3)
And which again, physical spanking is a reluctant but sometimes necessary Biblical use, and teaches a fuller real consequence to defiant disobedience than passive measures, which also have their place.