Who was Delilah

sentipente said:

As a Philistine woman who brought down their champion Delilah is different from these women. How did they know all the recorded details between Samson and Delilah?

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Well, if Samuel was the author of Judges 13 - 16, perhaps he got his details in the way the other Prophets of old did. He certainly would not have simply written down an urban legend, would he?

sentipente said:

I am not saying it was an urban legend. Not even a prophet is immune from a little exaggeration.

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Yikes! How often do you suppose he exaggerated? And on what stories?

As my Grandma said, dont go asking too many questions about another mans wife......

sentipente said:

Others may find it necessary to hazard an answer to those questions but I don't think it is necessary to know how often and where he did for someone who is willing to carefully test before accepting.

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I accept that some of us have been careless in the past as to how we view what is written in the scriptures. I believe that in order develop a clear picture of what is written, one would need to understand the social times, the lives and personalities of each of the humans He used as penmen. This is testing, IMO. Not only does this clarify the message, it builds an even greater appreciation for the record of human history.

In her preface to The Great Controversy, EGW made an important observation:

The ten commandments were spoken by God himself, and were written by his own hand. They are of divine, and not human composition. But the Bible, with its God-given truths expressed in the language of men, presents a union of the divine and the human. Such a union existed in the nature of Christ, who was the Son of God and the Son of man. Thus it is true of the Bible, as it was of Christ, that "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." John 1:14. {GC, 1888, page c.5, Author's Preface}

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sentipente said:

There was a time that I thought that the only part of the Bible that was written by the hand of God was the Ten Commandments. How do we know that the copy we have is accurate? I doubt it. The bottom line is that in spite of the errors of reasoning humans may make our mapping of reality has a bias towards what is correct because we are attempting to map what we observe.

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Perhaps that is where a modicum of faith comes in. We must test, prove, investigate and use all of the tools and clues that we have been given. But there is a Creator who is not the father of chaos and would not leave us without clear ways to know His truth.

Delilah was harlot she accepted money that proof. Samson was no exception he hung around with a harlot that night before. The story is in the bible to show where our human tendency can lead us. And we are to be kind an not be repulsive to harlot.

bellanegra1 said:

Call ME nieve.........

Delilah (imo) could have been a young woman even girl who would have grown up in what (we today) would consider the rougher side of the town.....

Perhaps she even had to do what she had to do to survive....

I am convinced that she was a very attactive young woman, very disireable woman....

She KNEW how to get what she wanted... and was not afraid to do whatever it took to get it....

N E Way.. that is what I "think"... but I never met the girl.....

One thing is true, whatever her skill, she was a master at it....

Now, though you did not ask about him, I believe that Samson was as much of a gullable soul as she was.....

Somehow they both were able to be persuaded to do something they would not have otherwise done....

MAYBE she was to believe that she was doing an honorable thing for her countrymen...... MAYBE he was convinced that he was inmortal....... untouchable...

I just wonder what the lesson is for us today......

What have you learned from the retelling of thier story?

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I agree. Samson had become so convinced of his own strength his own power, and he was blinded by love that he forgot that his strength came from God.