Bathsheba not named in Matt 1.6 due to unrepented adultery?

Marcia, this is just my opinion.

King David was not with his men when they were out battling the Ammonites. The bible says that during that time of year, kings were normally with their men in battle.

David sent his men out and he himself, stayed behind with clearly nothing of value to do.

He was on his roof just looking around. I was always taught as a child that she was on her roof bathing naked with the intent purpose of tempting him. The bible doesn't say that. David got up from bed one evening and just looked around from his rooftop and saw her bathing. Apparently it was after bedtime and she surely believed she was not being watched.

I believe that she was innocently bathing.

He sent his messengers to find out who she was and even though he was told that she had a husband, his didn't care. He wanted her anway. Now think about this. The bible says that he sent his servants to get her. Do you think that she had much choice in the matter when the king summoned her?

I do not believe that she had any intention of committing adultery. I believe she had no choice, but to obey the king. I do not believe she was raped, I believe that the relations were consentual, but nonetheless, if she was offered the choice, I believe that she would have told him no. I don't believe she willingly offered herself to him.

If she had been lusting after him in an equal manner that he desired her, I would have a different opinion.

Nathan, in his sad story to King David about the man who steals the other man's pet sheep and kills it to eat when he had plenty of his own sheep to slaughter, tells us who really bears the bulk of the burden here.

Did Bathsheba sin? Yes. Was she also a victim? Yes.

The bible says that Bathsheba cried when her husband was killed. And the that "the LORD did not like what David had done." (2 Samuel 11:26-27)

Nathan says in 2 Samuel 12:10 that to David that "you took the wife of Uriah the Hittite for yourself". He continues to say that God will punish David in part by taking his wives away from him and giving them to men who are close to him and that everyone would know about it..

I said all that to say this......to say that God did not name Bathsheba in Matthew's genealogy because she was unrepentant just isn't logical. I believe that God did not name her, but used her husband's name to remind us of all of the tragedy that befell so many people because of this affair.

She was Uriah's wife first. She should have been only Uriah's wife. God didn't want to ignore Bathesheba.....he wanted to remember Uriah.

 

Adultery isn't the unpardonable sin. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the unpardonable sin.

They are wrong.

If that's true, then God plays favorites and swept Bathsheba's sin under the rug because David was his "pet project". God doesn't sweep anyone's sin under the rug.

Sin make God sick to His stomach and God cannot be in the presence of sin.

God did not even forgive David because of David being a man after God's own heart. Many people completely misunderstand what it means when the bible calls David "a man after God's own heart." Many feel it mean that David was some sort of morally superior man. Not true.

David had problems. BIG problems. More problems that you will ever hear preached about in church. He wasn't the soft and gentle little boy tiptoeing through the sheep, writing praise songs. That's not what made him a man after God's own heart.

He was totally governed by his passions, both physical and emotional. He was a horribly neglectful father. He died pathetic and weak.

What makes David a man after God's own heart and someone that we should emulate was the fact that whenever God convicted him of his sin, he immediately was repentant. For example:

• When Nathan told the story of the little pet sheep (Bathsheba) that was so dear to the heart of it's master (Uriah) and explained the vileness of the man who took it (David) and killed it for food when he had a whole herd of sheep to choose from (David's other wives), David, at first, didn't know it was a story about himself. But he listened to Nathan and when Nathan very angrily exposed David for a vile sinner and told him that God was going to punish him greatly, he was immediately repentant, to the point that he had a broken spirit. He never questioned God's wrath nor God's punishment. He only begged God to give him a clean heart (Psalm 51).

• When David and his men were famished and needed something to eat and they came upon Nabal's house and asked for something to be sent to them to eat, Nabal sent only a sarcastic remark..."Who is this David....I don't know any son of Jesse. Why should I help some stranger?" David flew into such a rage that he was preparing to kill not only Nabal, but as he very graphically describes it in the King James Version, "anything that pisseth against a wall"......implying that he was going to kill every man, boy, male servant, and male animal. Just because one man was rude and hurled an insult and wounded his pride, David was going to slaughter innocent people, children, and animals. When Nabal's wife, Abagail meets David in the field with food and tried to sway him from killing the innocent, David listened to her and praised God for sending her his way and stopping him from senseless killings.

• When David, beginning with himself and continuing through his people raised all of the insane amounts of wealth to build God's Temple, David spent much time in praise to God and asking God to bless his people. David wanted so despertely to build a House for God. God told David that He was not going to allow David to build the Temple because David had too much in his past that tainted him. David was content with God's decision. He acknowledge his own sinful state. And Solomon built the temple.

Being a man after God's own heart doesn't mean that David didn't sin as much as everyone else, because his life was full of terrible mistakes. BIG mistakes. Mistakes that costs those around him their very lives, souls, and personal happiness.

Being a man after God's own heart means that David was submissive to God to the point that whenever God had to chasten him or discipline him, he welcomed it and rejoiced in the fact that God loved him enough to correct him. He acknowledged his sinful ways and allowed God to work in his heart.

That reasoning is faulty.

The adultery is what led to the killing of her husband. David not being where he was supposed to be in the first place led to the adultery.

Sinful acts are sometimes create a domino-effect. One domino isn't more powerful than the other. They each knock over the next one.

Yes, God was upset with the killing of Uriah. But that in no way by any stretch of the imagination overshadows His wrath over the adultery.

God doesn't play favorites with people. God doesn't play dominos with sin.

God doesn't play.......period.