Husbands love their wives by spanking her: Grooming Your Bride P/10

                                                       Read Part One HERE

This is my last post on the article "7 Steps To Groom Your Young Bride" written by Larry Solomon. This article can be found on his website Biblical Gender Roles.

Step #7 - Discipine Your Wife

"As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."  Revelation 3:19 (KJV)

Larry Solomon: "The verse above is Christ speaking to His churches after having just rebuked them and threatening to discipline them if they did not repent. Christ associates His rebuke and chastening with His love for His churches. In Ephesians 5:25 the Scriptures tell us "Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself up for it." So, if a husband is loving his wife as Christ loves His church, then he will rebuke and discipline his wife. Otherwise he is not loving her as Christ loves His church. Discipline for you toward your wife is crucial for the grooming process to work in the life of your wife."

There are many ways to discipline your wife.

1. Larry Solomon: "I used to be against wife spanking, then I was neutral to it as I could see no condemnation of it in the Bible and now over the last few years I come to see it as the most effective tool a husband can use in his role as human instrument of sanctification in the life of his wife. And this is not a newly invented disciplinary tool of husbands, but rather wife spanking was fairly common throughout history before the last 50 years or so."

2. Larry Solomon: "Whenever I speak on wife spanking, I must issue the following cautionary note: "While it is a husband's God given right to use spanking as a form of discipline on his wife (with or without her consent), a husband should be wise in regard to the hostile culture we live in. We live in a  culture which denies almost all the rights that God has given to a husband including his right to discipline his wife. That means that if you do not have your wife's consent to spank her and she calls the police on you, you may go to prison for domestic abuse."

 My Comment

1.As for Larry Solomon being neutral about wife spanking because he could see no condemnation of it in the Bible, it is clear that he does not understand the love the Lord has for His people, even those who rejected Him as we know from Luke 19:41-44 where we read that He wept over Jerusalem.                     As for Larry spanking his wife as a tool of sanctification, all believers, male and female are to be disciplined by the Lord as we know from Hebrews 12:7-10                                                                         Endure hardship as discipline, God is treating you as sons..... God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness."

2. As for any wife spanking, that is physical abuse and, therefore, completely contrary to what the bible teaches. God allows tests, challenges, into the lives of all believers in order to sanctify a believer, male or female. It is true that in the past, men seemed to have been allowed to spank/beat their wives, but, thankfully, laws have been put into place to prevent that from happening. As for any husband to have the right to discipline his wife by spanking, he should indeed go to prison for domestic abuse.