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What does it mean that David was a man after God’s own heart?

Evangelicalism has another sex scandal afoot, as is endemic to American evangelicalism at this point. Every time this happens, the weird excuse that somehow the godly David fell accidentally into sexual sin with Bathsheba circles again as a means to distract from the impact of a major speaker on the reformed-ish conference circuit’s extramarital affair. It’s worth wondering how David as the man after God’s own heart could fall into gross sin, right? Except that the idea that David was somehow the godliest man in the Bible suffers from a lack of exegetical support.

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How the Tower of Babel Builds the Storyline of Genesis

Bible skeptics or critics often point to alleged inconsistencies in the biblical accounts of history to try to discredit the Bible’s truthfulness and authority. An example of such an alleged inconsistency is the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. Here is the problem: Genesis 11:1 says “Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.” However, the earlier passage Genesis 10:5 states, “From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans in their nations.” (Emphasis added.) How did the whole earth have one language after the different peoples scattered out with their own languages? Continue reading “How the Tower of Babel Builds the Storyline of Genesis” →