>Samson was a screw up, notwithstanding his final disposition as someone of faith. God is bigger than our screw ups.
I’m not doubting that; in fact praise God that He *is* bigger than our screw-ups.
>Setting public policy by him makes about as much sense as making our laws concerning protecting innocent life based on King David’s actions in murdering Bathsheba’s husband.
I’m not setting the public policy by him; I’m just saying that it may be wrong to legislate it as such. (Is not God the Judge of men’s hearts?)
Besides which, consider the ways in which a legalistic mindset might be applied to such a a prohibition against your other liberties (much the way society tries to pit free-will against a ban on abortion)... it could be then construed that any self-threatening activity is grounds for legal prosecution (like, say, fighting off an attacker on your wife/sister/mother/friend).
We already have something very much like this with respect to the 4th Amendment; it requires that WARRANTS be supported by [oath or affirmation of] probable cause... not that searches and seizures themselves are permissible by “probable cause.”
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