Fact and Truth

Is a fact the truth?

The mocker: Abuthen! That is a fact! Wa liao eh! You stoopid or what?

Person A saw someone walked away with a cake from the shop without paying.

The mocker: It is theft lor! That is so obvious, you dumbass! The person is a thief in dwelling. Can you see my smart humour?

Person A then found out from the shop owner that the customer had made payment in advance.

Some people so often jump to hasty conclusions based on an isolated fact that they do not need to exercise.

A fact itself does not determine the whole truth.

The mocker: David repented of his sin with Bathsheba. It was only thereafter that his life went right. That is a factual Biblical account. David was not conscious of God's love his entire life! Do not reinterpret the Bible to hide an inconvenient truth. The Bible does not lie! Say it as it is!

When David was a shepherd boy, he told King Saul before facing the giant Goliath, 

“The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”

- 1 Samuel 17:37 (NKJV) 

Even as a boy, David was already conscious of God's love for him. If you read his psalms that corresponded to the challenges he faced in life, you will immediately see how conscious David was of God's love.

After David repented, his life was not a bed of roses. There were two sets of four calamities: 

Set #1 – Death of David’s Sons

The following sons of David died after his sin with Bathsheba:

1.      Bathsheba’s first son (2 Samuel 12:18);

2.      Amnon (2 Samuel 13:28-29);

3.      Absalom (2 Samuel 16:14-15); and

4.      Adonijah (1 Kings 2:25).

 

Set#2 – Disasters

The following four disasters marked the final years of David’s reign:

1.      Tamar was raped by her brother, Amnon and his death at the hands of his brother, Absalom (2 Samuel 13:1-22, 2 Samuel 13:23-33),

2.      Absalom’s traitorous rebellion and his death at the hands of Joab (2 Samuel 15:1-18:8, 2 Samuel 18:9-19:8),

3.      Sheba’s rebellion and the plague which followed David’s census (2 Samuel 20:1-22, 2 Samuel 24:1-25), and

4.      Adonijah’s conspiracy to rob the throne, which endangered the lives of Solomon and Bathsheba (1 Kings 1:1-53).

The mocker: Those were God’s judgment for David’s sin with Bathsheba.

Even in human jurisprudence, a person cannot be tried again on the same or similar charges, let alone punishment. It is double jeopardy to do so. Yet you are maligning the just and righteous God of injustice (John 8:44, NKJV)!

The mocker: Why did God allow such calamities in David’s life then?

Why not you read the Bible for yourself to find out instead of bulldozing your way through to fault others with your pathetic lack of Bible reading?  

When truth is on our side, we need not cower to the lie of the religious thug.