(January 16, 2016 at 7:12 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 16, 2016 at 5:43 pm)athrock Wrote: You keep assuming that 70K died simply because David conducted a census. And maybe that was true, but maybe there were other reasons for God's punishment of the people with the census merely being the final straw, so to speak.
You question our understanding of the text, but you're the first to depart from it when it suits you. That's hypocritical.
Par for the course I would have said.