David and Bathsheba
Submitted by Dirk Gently on April 30 2000 14:58:50
In reply to But child molesters are the worst scum!!! submitted by Heteroman on April 28 2000 19:11:20
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And what King David and St. Paul did was different. Their sins were with in the law of their respective lands. In fact, what David did was a crime in ancient Israel, the punishment for which was death. Leviticus 20:10 applied to all Israel, but perhaps even more particularly to the king, since one of his responsibilities was to uphold the covenant. In Psalm 51, written after the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba, he acknowledges this. "Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation." (Bloodguiltiness refers to a capital offense.) Like Jules, I've been reading the Bible for xx years, and I've actually completed a Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies, and yet I've never encountered the distinction between "eternal sins" and "temporal sins" that you're trying to make. Perhaps you're basing it on the legal consequences as prescribed by secular society? Dirk |
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