Like the story of King David, the dude who killed Golliath. What a real piece of shit he was.
Dude slept with Uriahs(one of his elite soldiers) wife while he was out fighting his battle for him. Then she got pregnant, David panics and begs Uriah home so he could have Uriah sleep with his wife and have no doubt about the child.
Uriah refused to return home until the battle was over. So King David, instead put him on the Frontline of battle and wrote the general to withdraw all the troops except Uriah so he would die.
So what was King David’s sin? Not having multiple concurrent wives, not lies, not murder. His sin was adultery.
Yes it’s an amazing book in many ways, but compare reading the book of numbers to let’s say a Lee Child ‘Jack Reacher’ story (which is already too much for a lot of people), and I’d easily call the Bible a pita to read. There’s also lots of ancient references, it’s long, the narrative changes, lots of fairly cryptic stuff etc. And worst of all, much is open to interpretation, which some people who hear the odd verse take as a ‘this can mean whatever I want because I haven’t read any of the context or tried to understand the opinion of the author(s?)’
The Bible has some great stories in it though.
Like the story of King David, the dude who killed Golliath. What a real piece of shit he was.
Dude slept with Uriahs(one of his elite soldiers) wife while he was out fighting his battle for him. Then she got pregnant, David panics and begs Uriah home so he could have Uriah sleep with his wife and have no doubt about the child.
Uriah refused to return home until the battle was over. So King David, instead put him on the Frontline of battle and wrote the general to withdraw all the troops except Uriah so he would die.
So what was King David’s sin? Not having multiple concurrent wives, not lies, not murder. His sin was adultery.
Yes it’s an amazing book in many ways, but compare reading the book of numbers to let’s say a Lee Child ‘Jack Reacher’ story (which is already too much for a lot of people), and I’d easily call the Bible a pita to read. There’s also lots of ancient references, it’s long, the narrative changes, lots of fairly cryptic stuff etc. And worst of all, much is open to interpretation, which some people who hear the odd verse take as a ‘this can mean whatever I want because I haven’t read any of the context or tried to understand the opinion of the author(s?)’