Why Was God So Angry At King David For Taking A Census? (or, why is data mining a sin?)

Got Questions ^ | 2018 | Got Questions

[midnightcat]

I can’t see how civilization can go on much longer like this. Everything is being turned on it’s head - gender, morals. How much longer can this be sustained? I can’t see it at all.

[Tell It Right]

Exactly.

There are times God Himself orders that the census be taken (i.e. Numbers 1 and elsewhere in Numbers, hence the reason for the book name). But I think it’s safe to say that David knew what he did was a sin (2nd Samuel 24:10). That alone, the belief that what he was doing was sin, might constitute it being sin.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It may be an end of “nominal business as usual” for a lot of Christendom. But this is a periodic problem that Christendom gets in, and we should be watchful for it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

When the power of darkness comes in like a flood, the Lord will raise up a standard (a rallying point).

[Albion Wilde]

Yes and the people who were being counted had to pay something in order to avoid a plague.

Sounds like Obamacare. /s

Seriously, I have not had time this week to consider your question fully; and will bookmark it.

[Albion Wilde]

I can’t see how civilization can go on much longer like this. Everything is being turned on it’s head - gender, morals. How much longer can this be sustained?

S I N = Systematic Inversion of Norms.

[Sontagged]

LOL... and thanks. Lord bless your day.