(November 30, 2014 at 6:03 pm)abaris Wrote: I didn't adress you in person, but I know that there's a movement trying to claim that David didn't kill the persons in question, but put them to work, although the bible is pretty explicit in this regard.
Also I want to point out, that David's murder isn't the big deal compared to what he did as a war lord.
But I notice, you did overlook my point about deliberately killing babies in times of war.
I don't see how anybody can use the bible to support David not arranging to have Bathsheba's husband die. Murder is always a big deal. As far as killing babies goes, I do agree that God ordered the killing of babies such as King Saul against the Amalekites. Saul disobeyed the order and spared some. Twenty years later there were enough Amalekites to capture the families of King David's and his men's families and David had to accomplish a rescue mission, but 400 Amalekites escaped from that battle. Several hundred years later a descendant of the surviving Amalekites attempted to have the entire Jewish population exterminated. God can see the future and has reasons for what he orders to be accomplished.
