In a sense Carson is right. But in another represents a falsehood.
One could have judged King David by what he did, but God didn’t. On the contrary he called him “a man after God’s own heart”. It is David that Paul quotes in Romans about the blessedness of the man to whom God CREDITS righteousness APART FROM WORKS.
These political Christians are preaching moralism but let no one confuse that with the GOSPEL.
Jesus spoke nine times more about hell than He did about heaven. Downplaying the reality of eternal punishment by an infinitely Holy Creator is one of the tricks of legalists.
On another note, I have heard that one of Carson's key staffers is a Louis Farrakhan admirer. Ooops. By their fruits you shall know the phonies.
None the less, Christ tells us “by their fruits, you shall know them!” This means we are to look at what people do and not at what people say.
Just so you know, although David’s faith counted for righteousness in God’s eyes; indeed he was a prophet and an old testament saint, from whose lineage Christ came, David was an egregious sinner and came under God’s judgment and was punished severely for his sins. Had he not repented from the evils that he did, and turned away from them, his faith would have meant nothing and David would have had no righteousness in God’s eyes.
In the end, Cruz-bots, this was a rotten rotten thing to do Dr. Carson. The Cruz campaign damaged Dr. Carson just as Romney’s did Herman Caine. What a terrible way for the Republican party to treat its black presidential candidates!