The Psalms are the word of Christ

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Why is it a lie?

Saints here don't appreciate the book of Psalms because it's loaded with human opinions according to them. No wonder I don't often hear they quote from Psalms.

[Evangelical]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Saints here don't appreciate the book of Psalms because it's loaded with human opinions according to them. No wonder I don't often hear they quote from Psalms.

Especially this one:

Psalm 137:9 May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks!

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Especially this one:

Psalm 137:9 May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks!

That verse was written for WL and his boys!

Too bad WL didn't read that verse, then the Lord could have blessed everyone.

[aron]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

Especially this one:

Psalm 137:9 May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks!

Ohio and I both noted Paul's spiritually- oriented warfare motif in Ephesians -"not flesh and blood" - but you let it pass. I noted the many martial aspects of Jesus' gospel activities against the forces of darkness. Not applicable, you say - these OT verses were from those speaking and doing horrific, unchristian things. Not divine revelation! Not Christ!

Yet when David and Goliath stood there spitting curses at one another, then ran together with knives and stones, wishing each other real, physical harm, what then are we to think? Should the Isaelites have submitted to the Philistines as the 'Christian' thing to do? Or Samuel with Agag? Or Deborah and Sisera? Or Abraham and the kings?

The argument leads to absurdity, so one must change it as the text moves along. With God there's no shadow cast by turnings but with WL and LSM we see exegetical turnings aplenty, and few more prominent than the treatment of the Psalms.

"He who eats bread with me, lifts his heel against me"; this was David dealing with palace intrigue. And yes they were all fallen human sinners, not one of them pure in themselves. Yet because of God's promise it is cited by Christ. "It is written" - that was good enough for Jesus but suddenly your argument is grasping for qualifiers, even if unevenly applied. John 13:18; Psa 41:9