Ten Strange Bibilical tales

[MCWAY]

Your logic is flawed.  What happen at pearl doesn't make an entire nation evil. 

this is the kind warped brain washed thinking that leads to slamming planes into skyscrapers.

I never claimed it did. My point was one I've made on multiple occasions: Sometimes, people suffer for the sins of others. That happens in life, regardless of your religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

[OzmO]

I never claimed it did. My point was one I've made on multiple occasions: Sometimes, people suffer for the sins of others. That happens in life, regardless of your religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

Yes this is true.  But we as men have the noble ability to spare innocent people from being punished.  It is what separates us from and barbaric nature and  self righteousness that justifies killing or punishing innocent people. 

With out that we are no better than the evil we are fighting.

[MCWAY]

With that said, it's time to address.....


#6

Saul doesn't David to marry his daughter. He sends David on what is essentially a suicide mission, not expecting him to survive. Keep in mind that Saul is staring at the man he knows will replace him, for his botching up the Amalekite mission. Saul is trying to avoid the inevitable: David will supplant him as king. David, however, might have been trying to marry this woman, to quell the murmurs of Saul loyalists. By marrying into the current royal family, he would ensure that Saul's descendants will continue to rule on the throne of Israel. But, God has rejected Saul. Neither he nor his descendants will rule Israel again.