Here's a question from an asked Pastor John, a podcast listener in Norway, who writes

saying, hello, Pastor John, thank you for all that you have done for the Kingdom and

for this podcast.

I have a question regarding child rearing.

You have formally said that you would go to jail over the issue of spanking.

I agree with you that spanking is biblical, but in my home country, Norway, as well as

in many other countries, spanking is illegal.

The consequences would then not only be that one may have to go to jail, but that the

government would take your children.

This has now happened in the famous Budnario case where a couple in Norway lost their children

after spanking them.

In cases such as these, one may never get one's children back again because the government

may not see you as a suitable parent because you spank your children.

What would you do as a Christian parent in Norway?

Wouldn't it be better to not spank your children and be sure that your children will

never be taken away from you?

This is a big issue with huge consequences for us in Norway.

Well, that's for sure that this is an important thing and has great consequence.

Norway is not the only country.

You can go online and see a graph of the countries in Europe and around the world where it's

illegal to spank and that is only increasing.

I read about the Budnario case or however it's pronounced in Norwegian, I'm sorry if

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