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1 Samuel 18:10-11
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:16 am
by ultimate777
What was God doing? Was it right?
1 Samuel 18:10-12
New International Version (NIV)
10 The next day an evil[a] spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand 11 and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
Re: 1 Samuel 18:10-11
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:56 am
by Silvertusk
All things come from God. This another example of something he permitted, but not actually caused as he can see the end result.
Re: 1 Samuel 18:10-11
Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:58 am
by PaulSacramento
ultimate777 wrote:What was God doing? Was it right?
1 Samuel 18:10-12
New International Version (NIV)
10 The next day an evil[a] spirit from God came forcefully on Saul. He was prophesying in his house, while David was playing the lyre, as he usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand 11 and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.
All is from God, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Some my view this as an episode that shows the "end justifies the means", a "greater good" thing or it can be simply understood as a spirit that was evil that all spirits are from God so...
The issue is guess can be the word evil.
If the text read simply a "spirit from God" then we would get a different impression of the goal of God sending the spirit BUT the text says EVIL spirit from God.
Of course RA isn't always translated as evil...