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Den Hall under in David and the question of rape.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022, introduction.

So another tempest has arisen again, and it is once more over whether King David was guilty

of rape in the incident with Bashiba.

And as a corollary, the issue is whether modern conservative pastors are complicit in all

this sort of stuff by denying that this could even have been the case.

Because nothing would be worse than being falsely accused on this kind of thing, as I know

right well, let me begin by asserting that I believe that such a thing is certainly possible.

King David did fall into grievous sin, as is acknowledged by all, and if we moved it

from the charge of adultery and murder to rape and murder, we are still dealing with

something that Nathan would have come and rebuked him for.

David was in bad enough spiritual shape to kill a man, so why wouldn't he be capable

of taking a woman against her wishes?

Such a thing is certainly possible.

So the question is whether or not it is borne out by the text.

But I'm writing about this now, because something else is going on.

In this clip above, Rachel Den Hall under does a number of unfortunate things, and I believe

that it is really necessary to answer her straight up the middle.

The first thing she says is that when dealing with survivors of sexual abuse, we have to

handle the scriptures well.

She says this right before she doesn't do that.

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