David says he will "go to" the baby who has died.
Does that mean the baby went to Hell and Davis will go there too?
FC David says he will "go to" the baby who has died
Well duh, of course -- if you don't read into it too hard. He will die, too, and go wherever the baby's spirit is (the Jews did not have a concept of hell, just a repository for dead souls). He didn't need any inspired knoweldge that everyone, including kings, die. There is absolutely nothing profound in his statement. He is lamneting his own bad judgment.
But what is disturbing is that the baby is dead because it was a child born out of promiscuity of adultery and God killed him to punish David! The God of Life, God Who is Love, kills an innocent child to punish his adulterous parents. Truly merciful.
So much for the OT statements such as that no man is responsible for other man's sin, or that a father cannot atone for the son, or the son for the father.
Contrast that with the God in the NT when Christ chases away men who wanted to stone a prostitute and, having been left alone with her, says "There is no one here to condemn you."
Night and day. Judaism and Christianity.