My honest review of Christianity

[Jenny A]

Wow. Really?


2 Samuel 12:11-14
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'

Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die."

These verses refer to God's punishment of King David for his adultery with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband. This promise was fulfilled when David's son Absalom rebelled against David and took his father's concubines and had sex with them. God allowed this to happen just as he allowed countless acts of evil happen. God didn't go to Absalom and tell him to capture David's concubine and rape them, the same as he didn't order the Babylonians to capture and destroy Jerusalem and take the Israelites into captivity as slaves. Absalom committed these acts according to his own choosing after listening to bad advice from his young and inexperienced advisors. It turned out to be a bad decision, by the way for him. God often used evil nations to punish Israel for their disobedience.

Yeah, interpret away all that active language: "I will bring," "I will take," "I will give," and "I will bring down," and call it "allow." Why not? I'm sure all God meant was I'll let people have free will to hurt you.

Did he also just let David and Bathsheba's son die, or did he mean it when he said: "The Lord has remitted your sin, you shall not die. However since you have spurned the enemies of the Lord by this deed, even the child about to be born to you shall die."

So David's sin is remitted in return for the life of an innocent child. God's justice. Gotta love it.