Well so was king David,but the church and the devil never forgives.
Thank God for his grace.
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't walk away from this one. You managed in one sentence to do what most people couldn't do with an entire paragraph. Let's list the problematic claims one point at a time:
1) That David was a heretic. David was not a heretic. That's why his writings are included in the Bible. He was a grievious sinner at times, but he was not a heretic.
2) That if David had been a heretic, then the association means we should treat heretics as favorably as we treat David. In this case, it means that we should treat the
heresy favorably, as we are talking about someone's works (I'm not making the claim that his works are heresy, but I am taking issue with what you seem to suggest, regarding heresy). There are some pretty wild heresies out there, and I see no reason to compare all or any of them with the teachings of David.
3) That the church never forgives. The church
does forgive. What you suggested there was a false accusation. Good churches never
excuse sin, but we do
forgive it. Forgiveness doesn't mean that we forgive error so we can follow it. That would make no sense.
4) That the devil never forgives. This point may be true, but I doubt you'll find that anywhere in the Bible. I'm not sure how you could even begin to prove that point. In fact, I can think of one good reason why the devil might occasionally forgive, and that's expediency. I think he could forgive a useful idiot, so long as he remained useful.
5) That everything that the devil does is wrong, that if he does it, then we should not. Of course, I argued in the previous post that the devil quotes scripture, which puts an end to this point. I would also add that we don't follow the devil, either positively or negatively. We don't follow him positively by doing everything he does, and we don't follow him negatively by doing the opposite of what he does. We follow God, only.