Bill’s Faith Matters Blog
September 12, 2020
Many characters found in Bible stories are, well, flawed people, starting with Adam and Eve.
Moses murdered a guy and had to flee. Peter denied Jesus three times, and other disciples of Jesus sometimes come off as dumb as fence posts. Jonah ran away when God asked him to go to Ninevah and shape up the people there.
And King David? Where to start? Well, start with what today almost certainly would be called his rape of Bathsheba and his being an accessory to the murder of Bathsheba’s husband.
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