[Vision2020] Heirdoug's hero

[Ralph Nielsen]

heirdoug at netscape.net heirdoug at netscape.net
Tue Dec 5 17:14:21 PST 2006

Yes Artie, he did.

But, God forgave him after he repented of his sin against God and
against his soldier. He also lost a child as a result of his sin. That
is why I choose to identify with David. He was a guy that truly loved
the Lord. And the living God truly loved him.

Doug
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The biblical character King David is often
represented as a great Bible hero.

     * God said, "I have found David the son of
Jesse a man after mine own heart" (Acts 13:22).
     * "My lord the King [David] ...is as an angel
of God" (2 Sam 19:27).
     * "My lord [King David] fighteth the battles
of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee
all thy days" (1 Sam. 25:28).
     * "King David did that which was right in the
eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any
thing that he commanded him all the days of his
life save only in the matter of Uriah the
Hittite" (1 Kings 15:5).

But let’s look at some of the things King David
did:

     * He was really good at killing people (1
Sam. 18:7).
     * King David committed unprovoked aggression
and mass killing of men and women (1 Sam. 27:8-11).
     * He exposed himself like a pervert (2 Sam. 6:20).
     * He hamstrung over 1,000 horses (2 Sam. 8:4b).
     * He impregnated another man's wife (2 Sam. 11:2-5).
     * He arranged for a man to be killed in battle so he
could have his wife (2 Sam. 11:14-17).
     * He sent seven of Saul's descendants to be
impaled as human sacrifices to Yahweh God (2 Sam. 21:1-9).

As a Bible hero, David is often given as an example of someone
to look up to. Would you want to identify with him?

Read the Bible carefully, it’s not what you have been told it is.

Ralph