This is the truth which I know most people won’t like to hear, that first what is called Christianity is a name derived from what they call Christ followers because of their version of Judaism. Europeans took over the world and changed the religion or let’s say anglocised it. So, it is save to say that Christianity is a new version, modified Judaism.
The Bible did not object to polygamy because it is a common practice in the Ancient Israel, Abraham slept with Haggar, Jacob not only married two sisters but slept with his wives’ maids to have his twelve chldren. This is history and it is a fact.
So, the Old Testament part of the Christian Bible is the Torah of Judaism – Torah, meaning the Law. The OT comprises of the Torah (Law) Nebim (Prophets) and Kethubim (Writings).
So when your pastors starts to refer to Leviticus during sermon, he is quoting the laws meant for the Israelites (originally) When in your C&S church, you use David’s Psalms to pray, You are using David’s poems, written as a record of his life and what he experienced. When you read the Proverbs, ecclesiastes, you are sharing from Solomon’s regrets of disobedience.
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When you talk about David and Saul or the House of David being more favored by God over Saul’s house, I want to remember that, the stories in Kings, Samuel and Chromicles were written by the House of Judah(David’s tribe) when they were in exile in Babylon. The other tribe of Israel, the ten tribes, which was the House of Saul, had been taken away by Assyria before Judah fell to Babylon. So the House of David considered themselves to be the only favoured Children of God and that is what we have accepted and live with and this is untrue. WHat we have been doing is taking side in a family feud.
We have heard how great Abraham was as a father of faith and they have supressed how he attempted to pimp his wife in order to save his own life. Abraham knew or thought he would be killed because of his wife. He asked his wife to say to say she was his sister for the King to have her in order for hin to stay alive. He did not care what the King would do to her. We later discovered that Sarah was truly Abraham’s sister from another mother with same father-Step-sister and he married her (Gen 20:12). In good consicence can we call him am good example of a family man, a protector of his family and marriage?
Jacob is presented as another good example when in actual fact, he took advantage of his brother twice. He forced him to sell his birthright and later stole his blessings. I am sure this is not what God is teaching us. But we twisted it to say that’s how how God wanted it. If God had wanted it, will He not have created Jacob before Esau, and let Isaac bless him instead?
When he was dying, Jacob cursed some of his children. He blamed them for his own failure. He was not a good family man and should not be seen as one.
