7871	Forums / Theology Forum / Catholic Apologists	on: February 09, 2007, 04:30:01 PM
And that's the rub. God decreed that David would have an affair with Bathsheba and conspire to have her husband murdered. Sounds like it's God's fault, so why did God have David punished? Remember the original movie M*A*S*H? Frank tells Major Hot Lips that God brought them together that night. She responds, \"His will be done!\", and they proceed into the fires of passion. So with Paul's hypothetical questioner you must ask, \"Then why does He still complain? For who resists His will?\" Paul's answer of \"Oh, just shut up!\" doesn't cut it. God passively decreed that every thing that comes to pass. If God did not decree the sin then He could not use the sin for His glory. Gods hands would be tied. But the same passage you quoted from Paul in Rom. 9 also says that God used Pharaohs life to bring about His glory. Why? because God does what ever pleases Him, Who can resist His will? In Davids life Gods discipline was an act of love otherwise David would not be His child. God used the sin of adultery to bring about Davids growth and also so David would be able to pin the greatest confession that ever was recorded in history. Without Davids sin we probably would not had Psalm 51. This psalm is almost like the water on the wicked witch to the devil. This Psalm is absolutely the medicine for the worst of sinners, with the most desperate circumstances, with the most despicable reputation. This Psalm of confession helps one to see that sin has been dealt a final blow, and that the saint is completely accepted before the throne of grace as a sinner. This Psalm is the Holy Spirits witnessing tool, to convince a sinner that all of the promises are yea and amen. In this Psalm we have the ultimate fellowship with the Father in forgiveness, by the cries, the confession, the doctrine of sin, the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and the absolution to the bottom of ones soul. It is a cleansing creed!