Honor thy parents

[SayaOtonashi]

When it comes to this how should people look at parents who mistreat and abuse their children? Does this apply to all parents or just the parents that are loving

 

[Blade]

Hey.. my dad was very mean. Beat me with a board.. called me names all the time. Day before Xmas said "your going to be a bum all your life".

One day at Church this very dear friend that prayed 4 hours a day. She came up to me and said I had to ask my dad to forgive me.. she was crying by this time. ME ask him to forgive me? Well the next week one night watching TV (3 channels then) I look at the clock above the TV show'd 8:30pm. I look to my left and said "dad will you forgive me for ever hurting you?" He looked back and answered "yes..will you forgive me".

So I called that very dear friend up the next day. I told her " I did it" She asks me "what is about 8:30pm when you asked him?" I said YES how did you know?" She said "the lord told me to pray for you right then.

See the lord always wants us to repent. The lord wanted to forgive. By me asking for him to forgive me..he asked me to forgive him. THATS what the lord wanted. No matter what I would always honor them. To become wrong..Hard to see.. but will worth the price.. forgive me.. I DONT share this much if ever

 

[Messerve]

I think you should always treat your parents with respect, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with abuse. First confront them about it (if they claim to be Christians, they ought to see the sin in their behavior and will hopefully repent). If confronting does nothing, then I think you need to put a healthy distance between yourself an them. Don't cut off connections completely, because the commandment to honor our parents still remains. Yet, I don't think it is at all wrong if you distance yourself a bit for your own sake. Pray for them to change and if change happens, accept it (that can be really hard sometimes).