Wooden literalism takes that statement as a fact, or actually an absolute promise. A LOT of parents of wayward offspring have suffered a tremendous amount of guilt from such an interpretation...thinking that if their child as an adult has chosen to walk away from the Lord, this verse is stating unequivocally it is THEIR fault.
I have heard such rationalized UnBiblical tripe all my adult life. First from many Pastors and then from many psychologist colleagues and professors.
In 63 years of watching parenting closely and the results closely, I have
NEVER
SEEN
AN EXCEPTION to that Scripture.
I'm very sorry, dear Quix, that you must believe that God the Father Himself screwed up in raising (and actually creating) His son Adam, who though given everything, quickly sinned on his own, bringing us all down.
How disappointing it must be to you to realize that even God messes up....because, after all, that proverb is MORE than a proverb, and is an absolute truth (even though, of course, Solomon, and the Holy Spirit never intended it to be understood that way...since it is, after all, a proverb, in the book of PROVERBS.)
WRONG.
Scripture says Christ was scheduled as the Sacrifice from the foundation of the world.
Your allegation is off the wall wrong beginning to end.
I don’t understand all God’s mysteries, for sure.
However, I know that ALL God does is perfect and always has been and always will be.
The incapacities of our finiteness to articulate wisely about such things is our problem, not God’s.