How was the event you mentioned (but didn't scripturally quote, that would be here) in any way celebrated as good by the Hebrews? This was done to their own king. Wasn't it "divine punishment" for adultery? To the victim of it, rather than the perpetrator, however - again, a problem with morality and justice.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary: 15-23. The Lord struck the child. The first visible chastisement inflicted on David appeared on the person of that child which was the evidence and monument of his guilt.
Wasn't it "divine punishment" for adultery? To the victim of it, rather than the perpetrator, however - again, a problem with morality and justice.
I bet you never read who actually pronounced a death sentence for the act in question while you were skimming the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
Hint: it wasn't God.
And who's morality and justice are we talking about here? Yours? Why should yours matter instead of, say, the Spartans or ancient Romans, who were notorious for what the did with unwanted infants? Or even the Israelites when they decided to follow
pagan deities instead of the much-maligned OT Hebrew God? Or, dare I say,
modern day pagans?
