Psalms 51 – 53

Verse 51:4 raises an eyebrow:

It was against You, only You, that I sinned,
    for I have done what You say is wrong, right before Your eyes.
So when You speak, You are in the right.
    When You judge, Your judgments are pure and true.

This was David’s Psalm after Nathan called him on his affair with Bathsheba. I say this is wrong from the first line. Sure David sinned against God, but NOT only God. He ordered her husband Uriah the Hittite into harm’s way so he would die to cover up his affair. He wronged his many wives by lusting after yet another. His actions set Israel on an odd twist because of dysfunction in his family. Granted his in ability to be faithful to one woman was there way before Bathsheba and may be the root of his family problem. The affair just tipped the scales in his families problems.

Sure God likes to use the least likely to show his glory, and He does it here too. Think about it, David was a lowly shepherd and became a mighty warrior and leader of Israel. In later life he became a murderer and an adulterer, yet still is the line our savior Jesus came from. If he had been faithful and honorable, would Jesus have been needed? Would David’s character spread across the nation?

Verse 53:1 talks about people faith:

The foolish are convinced deep down that there is no God.
    Their souls are polluted, and they commit gross injustice.
    Not one of them does good.

As you know I am one to focus on the atheistic bend in science today. Men like Copernicus broke from the traditional beliefs of the church, but did not bend his faith. Today it seems like the main role of science is to disprove God and crush religion. Don’t believe me study Jerry Coyne. Over 20% of his work attempts to prove religion to be “perverse”. One of the greatest minds of all times was a theist and Albert Einstein focused on the NOW and things we could change.

It’s foolish to look at nature which shows cause and effect work. Science is be able to date the universe and earth showing there was a beginning that just happened. Now without ever observing something spontaneously happening in nature we are led to believe that nature occurred from a multitude of “Big Bangs.” You have the cosmological Big Bang where the universe came from nothing. Next you have the biological Big Bang where life started from inorganic matter. Next you have the anthropological Big Bang where this life became the diversity we see today, from bacteria to man. Finally you have the psychological Big Bang where our minds developed conscious and the ability to think outside survival mode. It’s impossible to observe any of this in nature today and just take the models science provides without a creator on faith that it happened their way.