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.
Perhaps, all things considered it was the most merciful thing for the child. God would be the one to know that, not you or I.
Romans 9:20
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,
Why hast thou made me thus?
That about sums up much of FullCourt's prooftexting.
The baby was not conceived in a relationship blessed by God. This is one of the mysteries of marriage and is taught in the bible, from the first union of Adam and Eve, down through every couple that brings about the Plan of Salvation, whether it is Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah, to David, the first annointed King. God is a partner in the marriage and this marriage was not holy. Once David was married to Bath-Sheba, then God joined the union and brought Solomon, David's son, and the ancestor of Jesus.