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.
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