Relevance of Old Testament in Modern World

[Jon Miller]

Even if there was no textual problems/etc with the Bible. It still needs to be read as interactions between God and man, where man is at. God isn't some factory that you give a situation to and process a quick result and get a 'do this' or 'do that'.

Some things are pretty simple (like "torture my mom?"), but most things are very complicated because God is complicated, man is complicated, and the situation man finds himself in is very complicated.

I mean, take for example David. He had the 10 commandments. But he committed adultery, had a man killed, and married the woman who had been his wife.

Now yeah, God was pretty upset. Consequences occured. But did God have David killed? Did He expect people to give the 'lawful consequences' to David? Did He even force David to divorce his new wife?

No.

By the way, I think it is also wrong for missionaries to go into cultures where men have multiple wives and force them to get rid of all but one/etc. Despite the fact that I think it is right to only have one wife.

JM

[Ben Kenobi]

By the way, I think it is also wrong for msissionaries to go into cultures where men have multiple wives and force them to get rid of all but one/etc.

So you believe polygamy is biblical?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well it sure was for some.

[Kuciwalker]

I mean, take for example David. He had the 10 commandments. But he committed adultery, had a man killed, and married the woman who had been his wife.

This seems both redundant and unproblematic.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think he mistyped. Was probably refering to Bathsheba, who was already married. David then had her husband (Uriah) killed. And then he married her out of wedlock.

(Yeah, that's pretty messed up)

[Ben Kenobi]

Dammit, Imran.

[Japher]

The story of David, similar to the story of Moses and Joshua, continue the need for repentance and the disapproval of man by God that is seen throughout the Old Testament, and makes way for the story of Christ.

David's sin wasn't really adultery or murder, though that is what it came to, his sin was idleness. He was a warrior, set to build a temple to God and therefor not doing the work of God. When he killed Bethsheba's husband and took her as his won he sealed his fate with God and was forbidden to build the Temple. That is why Bethsheba and David's son built the temple, Solomon. Do the will of the Lord, not your will.