(November 30, 2014 at 6:03 pm)abaris Wrote: 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 it's just as good an example of god's warped 'justice' as any other. David either rapes or commits adultery with Bathsheba, and then tries to get her husband (currently fighting a war!) to sleep with her to cover his tracks. When the husband refuses out of loyalty to his fellow soldiers, David arranges for him to be killed on the battlefield. The penalty for all of these transactions?
God kills his newborn baby. Oh, and he forces David to go on the lam for a short time before returning him to the throne. Bathsheba becomes his wife, which means that depending on her part in this, she either wound up marrying her rapist, or the penalty for adultery in her case was to become the queen. But hey, we can't know god's mind, so all of this stuff must be okay!
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