Not simple at all.
Trouble is, any idiot can be a parent.
So, honouring and all that is going to depend on whether your parents are actually worth honouring.
No one should be accorded automatic respect from someone else simply by virtue of a position that they hold. Respect needs to be earned.
Originally posted by Ironstar True.......I guess what I should have said was follow all commandments, but the particular commandment for honoring your parent(s) is no. 5
I go that Idea from the Way of the Master TV show.
Originally posted by 7ate9 over the last while my own mother got caught in a bad place and dished out hell on me, because of her following a BS god/system/society.
i honoured her by being totally ignorant, and left her in tears many times....
That makes you a bad person as well as a bad Christian.