Source: Roads Go Ever On
by Bekah Graham
“If you grew up Evangelical around the time I did, you probably first heard the story of David and Bathsheba with the visual aid of a flannelgraph. That was certainly not the last time you heard it, as it is a frequently preached passage. It comes up in messages about repentance, or God using flawed people, or the compounding nature of sin, or even how idleness leads to sin. … Why are we talking about David as if he made a mistake and disobeyed God, and not that he kidnapped and raped Bathsheba, impregnated her, killed her husband, and then forced her to marry him? And then God punished David by killing her child. Do we ever once hear how she feels about any of this? Of course not. It’s not about her. It’s about David.” (02/10/26)