What if he was saying resist not the correction of your parents?
Parents? Where do you get that from?
Correction is a noun defined as "a correcting". The subject is Christians (new and old) and the verb directed towards the subject is resist - defined as "withstand the action or to strive against". We can therefore read "To Christians, regardless of age, I would say do not strive against a correcting". I ask you, WingsOfWisdom, who corrects Christians?
Prov 3:11-12
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: for whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Rom 8:16
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God
As a Christian, which is who this poem is for, the Spirit (the Holy Ghost) bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God and we know that whom the LORD loves (do you think He loves his children?) He corrects. I can safely assume the correction he spoke of is the correction of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, our Father.
And just for further proof, here's another good one...
Eph 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Firstly, I want to note that children are required to obey their parents in the Lord, but once one is grown they are no longer a child. Everyone should honor their mother and father, but honor is different than obey and this passages says "
Children, obey your parents
in the Lord". What if, as a child, your parents command you to do something evil? To do something unrighteous, something that is not in the Lord? Does God still expect obedience? Should you accept their correction, or listen to the LORD?
I also wonder, since we're on the subject, how can a child be an old Christian? Remember, the author said "To a new Christian...To an old Christian..." If this poem was directed towards physical children none could be old (they would all be children). Also, if this is a general saying for children there would be no need to specifically address Christians at all. The author could have penned "Children, resist not correction", but instead wrote "Christians resist not correction" and emphasized the fact that age is irrelevant. All Christians, gray haired or just getting grown-up teeth, should welcome the correction of God because He loves us. This is directly in agreement with scripture.
I do not see how any contextual or scriptural evidence would support such broad "resist not the correction of your parents" nonsense, and if the poem does mean that then I no longer like the poem. In Mt 10:34-37 Jesus said
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Your "what if he meant children resist not the correction of your parents" question is an asinine interpretation and completely ridiculous. Your question treats this poem like Mormons and a whole bunch of other folks treat the inspired word of God. Instead of simply reading the text and trying to learn what it means they read it and say "What if the text
really means
this?" and promote all kinds of dumb doctrine...but I'll step down from my soapbox for now.
My question to you is,"What if he was saying resist not the correction of the Spirit??"
