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In David’s sin there were many things which led up to that.. where He could have stopped the path he was on. In the end it cost two people their very life’s and positioned others to be part of the deception...who were also impacted. Let’s not forget the wife of the man David had killed...and what that ment to a woman in that time. The list can go on but look closer at this...and how God views sin.

The problem, Caww, is that again and again, the area of contention concerns justice - what did the child suffer for?

http://www.apologeticspress.com/articles/3400

The argument isn't whether a giver of life taking back what it gave, is unfair. Rather, the argument is about the child that was agonised until death for absolutely no fault of its own. Is mere death the same as suffering + death? No.

Even Jesus' death wouldn't have been the same without the suffering element. What did the child suffer for? Was that justice? No.

The apologist misses this completely, and provides support to the argument that it take superstition for reasonable people to justify evil. If killing children in the name of preventing them from committing sin later on is a justification, it is of the vilest of all possible human acts one can indulge in.

What did the child suffer for? Was that justice? No

Only someone who thinks it's "just" to kill one's own children so they don't commit sin, or for someone who kills his own daughter for having shamed the family (mercy killing) can a sadistic killing of David's innocent son be justice.