Q&A Forum - February 2016

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Secondly, you talked about the infliction of pain on another. Hurting someone is different from disciplining someone. Again, it comes back to your motivation. Jesus had the twelve disciples. The word disciple is translated from the Greek word that actually means “a learner under discipline.” I am sure you are aware of Church discipline. When I attended Catholic school the Nuns would use corporal punishment to discipline unruly children. Christian parents would spank their children in order to discipline them. Did they have a problem reconciling this with their Faith? No, in fact their Faith encouraged this, “spare the rod, spoil the child.” Read the book of Proverbs and underline all the references to using the rod of correction not only on children but also on young males. It is rather fascinating. Do a search on the Bible for scriptures that reference using the rod.

Discipline is good and especially essential for men. If a male needs (and even craves) the rod of discipline in order to assist him in life to be a better man, then how is it cruel to administer that rod of correction? At the hands of a woman who loves him, the rod (or whip or paddle or crop or cane) can bring peace to the unruly male soul. So don’t view the rod as being an instrument of pain but rather an instrument of correction. Does it hurt? Yes, but pain is not always negative if it teaches correction. In many cases the male soul craves the rod because it yields the peaceful fruit of emotional cleansing.