[Vision2020] Heirdoug's hero

[keely emerinemix]

Offlist, Heirdoug takes me to task for not defending King David from Ralph's 
attacks.  I think the Old Testament will stand just as well without my 
defense.

But King David's conduct, however indefensible, didn't compromise the spread 
of the Gospel on the Palouse.  Doug Farris' conduct, also indefensible, 
does.  I would think he'd spend far less time worrying about David's 
reputation and focusing on his own.  Those of us who are alive now have a 
greater responsibility to testify to God's goodness by living Godly lives, 
and those of us who see the testimony of Christ maligned by the living will 
rebuke them, not the dead.

keely


From: heirdoug at netscape.net
To: nielsen at uidaho.edu, Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020]  Heirdoug's hero
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:39:21 -0500


Ralph I did read carefully.

You seem to think that by pointing out the sins of another that I will
be shamed and embarrassed by what the Spirit of the Living God states
in the Bible. I will never be embarrassed by all of what God says, be
they red or black letters.

  From the genealogy in Matthew we see that God is not embarrassed either
using David’s sins to bring about the redemption of Mankind… “The
record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son
of Abraham: … Jesse was the father of David the king. David was the
father of Solomon by Bathsheba who had been the wife of Uriah.”

And now the passage that you cited: "After He had removed him, He
raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He (God) also
testified and said, 'I HAVE FOUND DAVID the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER
MY HEART, who will do all My will.”

But you stopped short, as you typically do, from quoting the rest of
the verse… “From the descendants of this man, according to promise, God
has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus”.

You should always quote all of the verse in it’s context and not be so
embarrassed by the truth that God's Word gives!

lemeno, Doug!






Ralph Nielsen nielsen at uidaho.edu
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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
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