Using Old Testament verses to justify beating your kids with rods is disgusting and disgraceful. My parents beat the hell out of me every Sunday after church. They had just been told about their sins and decided to whack the biggest sinner in the family, the five year old, with a belt. I never touched my kids and they all grown and successful.
Using Old Testament verses as morality keys, why don’t you sacrifice your daughters like Jephthah did?
There is a pretty large chasm between loving correction and gratuitously beating your child.
I never hit my sons on the ass more than three times at a single administration and never with anything other than the palm of my hand. It was a reminder to them of just who was in charge, and that it wasn’t them.
That your parents thought it appropriate to exceeded what would be necessary to ensure your compliance with their orders, goes back to the minister IMHO. It was incumbent on him to give context and administration guidance while quoting scripture.
Hebrews 12 is New Testament