by Doug Mason 12 Replies latest watchtower bible
The Bible depicts King David as a deeply flawed, unsavory character, the perpetrator of evil acts including: murder, insurrection, adultery, banditry, and extortion. The sanitizing of David’s character during the following centuries and millennia created an image that idolizes him as the paragon of virtue, closely associated with the promised Messiah. My Study identifies the Davidic sanitizing process.
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Regards,
Doug
Thanks Doug.
wt writers by parading out david, their posterboy as often as possibly, are implying, that their deeds also will be overlooked by the deity, that they have god's unwavering approval, because they see themselves , like jesse's shepherd boy, as anointed to rule.
wt also learned from the story, that might makes right.
I find Psalm 51:3,4 problematic, where it has David saying that he sinned against God and no one else, because it seems to dismiss accountability to other humans for his actions.
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Even when I was a 'believer(tm)' I thought David was a bit of a twit.
I still think that he raped Bath'sheba. If their relations had been consensual, then she was guilty of adultery. But god did not punish her for her actions, even though they led to the murder of her husband. That says to me that she was coerced (not surprising- the king summons you to his bedroom and puts the moves on you, you might be afraid to say 'no').
Then again, women in the old testament were on a lower tier than men, treated like property and with less freedom of action/choice. The writer of the story probably wasn't too concerned about her- she was just another prop.
I've always been jealous. Not of the murder part though. Well hung, eye for beauty, no qualms, no responsibility, lots of opportunity, even conscripted habishags.
Power gives the opportunity, then and now.
Power gives the opportunity, then and now. rtn
then from a slingshot, now from a kalashnikov
I thought David was a bit of a twit.
That isn't the way I would have spelled "twit".
The Bible depicts King David as a deeply flawed, unsavory character, the perpetrator of evil acts...
Well, to be fair, the Bible does the same for God himself. He's been whitewashed/sanitized too.
