- Chapter 82 in Drunk with Blood: God's killings in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 12:15-18
- Number Killed: 1
- David and Bathsheba's baby boy
- Number Killed: 1
- Table of God's killings
- Who has killed more Satan or God?
- God's next killing
- Who has killed more Satan or God?
More information about God's killings, with a chapter on each of the 135 killing events, can be found int the book:
11 comments:
"How's that for a fucked up Bible story?"
But God's (= Yahwe/Jehova/The Lord of Hosts/Enlil/etc.) believers wouldn't listen.
Certainly Jesus wouldn't do such a thing....oh, right, Yahweh & Jesus are the same because there is only one god.
Must be the baby needed killing.
Maybe the baby was a secret Amalekite. That must be how they repopulate - It is a recessive gene.
You didn't even mention that David refused to mourn for the child; how fucked-up is that?
Thanks matt! I've added a comment about how David reacted when God murdered his son.
It explains why bad things happen to little children. Not only does he allow it, he causes it. (struck down the first born of Egypt; the slaughter of innocents after Jesus's birth; etc)
The baby could've been a great football player like Tim Tebow! Too bad god aborted it.
Thanks for the addition, Steve, but I was just pointing out that the child's own father refusing to mourn for it is, in the words of Shakespeare, "the most unkindest cut of all"...
ahhh - nothing like a good child sacrifice to keep contempt until the next onslaught of mass murder!
God really knows how to wet his appetite!
One of you used the word "abortion" to decsribes God's action, so let me see if I get this right: in America, if a woman decides to take the life of her unborn child, we say that's okay because 1) either the baby is not fully human, or 2) even if it is, the mother has the right to make decisions of life or death about the child.
So if the baby is not fully human, God can't be faulted for killing people, right? And if it legal and apparently ethical for the powerful to take the life of the unborn, what did God do wrong in this story? It seems like the best you've got is that if Bathsheba had decided to kill her son, we would celebrate her empowerment and freedom. But if God does it, He's a moral monster? I don't get the reasoning.
One of you used the word "abortion" to decsribes God's action, so let me see if I get this right: in America, if a woman decides to take the life of her unborn child, we say that's okay because 1) either the baby is not fully human, or 2) even if it is, the mother has the right to make decisions of life or death about the child.
So if the baby is not fully human, God can't be faulted for killing people, right? And if it legal and apparently ethical for the powerful to take the life of the unborn, what did God do wrong in this story? It seems like the best you've got is that if Bathsheba had decided to kill her son, we would celebrate her empowerment and freedom. But if God does it, He's a moral monster? I don't get the reasoning.
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