Is it ok for parents to use corporal punishment to discipline their children?

Armour of God said:

I agree. Why assault a poor child when there are other non-abusive means of punishment.

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Because “assault” and “abuse” is not corporeal punishment. Beating a child with a rod is Biblically proscribed reaction to wayward children.

Your emotionally charged words are falsely applied to those one has no authority over to those one does have authority over. And it is you who fail to expand the principle you espouse to ALL use of violence, including MILITARY and POLICE.

Violence solves problems and more efficiently than any other mechanism. That’s why every country that ever existed employed coercive agents, aka MILITARY and POLICE.

Armour of God said:

I was talking about parents using it. They have other means of punishment.

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Yes and there is NO REASON parents should abdicate corporeal punishment as a means of punishment.

Armour of God said:

You cherry pick scripture to support your thoughts but ignore the ones that oppose them.

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Repeating a lie doesn‘t make it true. There is no verse in Scripture that opposes corporeal punishment. Of course you read into verses anything you want.

Armour of God said:

I'm not saying that corporal punishment is wrong

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Agh ha.

Armour of God said:

I'm just saying that it achieves nothing that non-violent punishments already acheive.

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False.

Armour of God said:

That can also be done without resorting to corporal punishment.

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I’ve long recognized the dangerous “can” of comparing POTENTIAL to actual. What you say again ignores efficiency. I recall that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where a master swordsmen displays his combat expertise …. You know the scene.

Armour of God said:

We can at least try non-violent punishments first before resorting to spanking the child

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This is what your anti-Scriptural world view has come to? Of course!

A survival expert, Cody Lundin, wrote a book called 98.6, referring to the normal body temperature; the basic principle is to use the fewest calories to achieve the survival goal. Of course!

Slow and steady wins the race. The turtle v the hare. I have multiple tools in my tool box. I said something that even my wife embraced. “It’s time to bring out the heavy artillery.” Sure, I never start with the most bodacious, explosive tool, the sledge hammer, the chain saw, the maul, pick axe, etc.

Armour of God said:

This is what I would do.

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Not Biblical standard.

Your entire world view on this topic is to put burden on parents in restricting their God-given freedom to invoke violence to efficiently solve problems.

Armour of God said:

My question to you was
What does spanking them actually achieve that other forms of punishment don't?

You didn't answer the question I think because corporal punishment doesn't actually achieve anything that a non physical punishment already does.

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Corporal punishment gets their attention.