<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>David (in answer to Johan Steyn)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When David felled Goliath<br>he stood there as a young man<br>putting his trust<br>in the almighty God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As a soldier totally incompetent<br>he could not even walk<br>in Saul’s armour, <br>did not even take along his own sword</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but with a slingshot<br>he defied the giant champion of the Philistines<br>slinging a stone at a precise angle into the air<br>and with the giant’s sword chopped off his head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When David cut a piece from the cloak<br>of king Saul, it wasn’t meant as a joke<br>but to show that the life of Saul<br>was in David’s hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That David was attracted to women, <br>nobody can deny, the ancestor of Christ<br>Bathsheba is a witness of it<br>and his love for Jonathan</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was no carnal thing, <br>they were friends, who were comrades, <br>nearer than brothers to each other<br>and many men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who went with each other through battles <br>against deadly enemies<br>know this type of thing<br>when you have to leave your life <br>in someone else’s hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That the psalm poet David<br>was also a soldier<br>does not make him a mass murderer, <br>or do you want to fit</div><div style="margin:10px 0">every man who once was a soldier<br>and now write poems<br>into this distorted picture? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So as if soldiers are not also Christians, <br>also serve God, also pray<br>cannot have a relationship<br>with Him? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go and read what the Bible says<br>about people who add words, <br>or leave words out of it, <br>maybe it also pertains</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to when you twist the Bible stories, <br>to fit to <br>your own impressions of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: Dawid (David) by Johan Steyn.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397817" data-title="David (in answer to Johan Steyn) de Gert Strydom" data-description="When David felled Goliath he stood there as a young man putting his trust in the almighty God. As a soldier totally incompetent he could not even walk in Saul’s armour, did not even take along his own sword but with a slingshot he defied the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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