{"id":2691,"date":"2021-07-19T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2021-07-19T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T10:54:49","slug":"bathshebagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/07\/19\/bathshebagate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathshebagate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In next Sunday’s Lectionary<\/a>, we read of the way King David pulled strings to try and cover up the fact that he got a married woman pregnant. In the end he sends her husband back to the front line to be killed. Each dark deed breeds a darker one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what message we’re supposed to get from this – at least in the end David was repentant and acknowledged God’s way and is a hero in that sense. Maybe we’re supposed to admire that he was a bit of a jack-the-lad. He’s not the kind of hero I could ever identify with. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have the power to embark on that chain of nasty deeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel about him the way I would feel about a St Augustine or a Malcolm Muggeridge, having a whale of a time when they were young, with no care about treating other people right, and then in their older years taking it upon themselves to tell other people how to behave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are people who live their whole lives with the consequences of men’s wrongdoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are questions of what does forgiveness mean in these circumstances, and what is repentance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In next Sunday’s Lectionary, we read of the way King David pulled strings to try and cover up the fact that he got a married woman pregnant. In the end he sends her husband back to the front line to be killed. Each dark deed breeds a darker one. I don’t know what message we’re … <\/p>\n

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