What kind of literary character was King David?

He was a character of historical fiction. He was NOT 100% literary character from imagination.

Basically, the answer lies in the Upper Kingdom – Lower Kingdom – United Kingdom dynamics AND the extent to which Egypt exerted its influence in Canaan and Syria AND what became of the Hyksos after they were incompletely pushed out of the Delta.

The answer also lies in the Israelites washing their hands of their ties to a) Saul writing letters to Amen-ophis III and Amen-ophis IV, b) David being a Lower Kingdom pharaoh, c) Solomon being a Lower Kingdom pharaoh, and d) as the Bible claims Solomon was so rich and so wise, what was his foreign diplomacy really like, given Egyptian history of dominance in the Judea and Israel of that time.

god misspelled said

A
David is punished for his sins.  His son Absalom rebels against him and is killed, because of what David did to get Bathsheba, and David is grief-stricken.  He doesn’t get away with everything.  

B
Jesus isn’t trying to ‘get away’ with anything.  He is depicted as being without sin, though it’s implied in Mark that he was a sinner before his baptism by John.  

C
As to whether it’s the same God …, Jews, Christians and Muslims all believe in the OT, so it’s the same God viewed through different lenses.     

Steefen

A.
One of David’s sins is taking a census.

God gave David a choice of three punishments for his sin—three years of famine, three months of fleeing before his enemies, or three days of plague. David chose the third, and the Lord then punished Israel with a plague that killed 70,000 men from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south.

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Another one of his sins is killing his son Abasalom and taking his son’s wife (Absalom = Father of Solomon, although Bathsheba’s child from the affair died–God’s punishment).

Punishment for David: 70,000 men killed and 1 baby killed, but God can take away the kingship from Saul.

God mis-spelled’s silly 1-star or no-star answer: David cries (grief-stricken). Some punishment you’ve got there. We wait for sentencing and the sentence is a few days of grief.

B.
Jesus gets away with at least one grave crime and sin.

Rightfully or wrongly, Jesus turned away from the God of Abraham and led people astray, requesting he be remembered with a new Passover meal of his body and blood, a destructive stance against God and the Jewish religion (relationship between Hebrew God and worshippers).

* * * Genesis 9: 4

But you must not eat meat with its lifeblood still in it.

* * * Psalms 27: 8 and Leviticus 17: 10-11

When You said, “Seek my face,” my heart said unto You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.”

   Any Israelite or any alien living among them who eats any blood—I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from his people. I have given the blood to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar…

* * * Deuteronomy 12: 15-16

But whenever you wish, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Those who are clean or unclean may eat it, as they would a gazelle or deer, but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

* * * Deuteronomy 28: 53-55

53During the siege and hardship that your enemy will impose on you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you. 54The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived, 55refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children that he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and hardship your enemy will impose on all your cities

* * * 1 Samuel 14: 32-33

So they rushed greedily to the plunder, taking sheep, cattle, and calves. They slaughtered them on the ground and ate meat with the blood still in it. Then someone reported to Saul: “Look, the troops are sinning against the LORD by eating meat with the blood still in it.” …

* * * Jeremiah 19: 8-9

I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be horrified, and will scoff because of all its wounds. I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’

* * * Lamentations 4: 9-11

Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. 10The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 11The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

* * * At Acts 15: 13, 20, “…James spoke…abstain… from blood.”

After All of the above Paul and Jesus DEFIANTLY said the following, knowing it was the theological and religious deal breaker, a sacrament of atheism and defeat.

* * * 1 Cor 11: 23-25, Luke 22: 19-20, Matthew 26: 26-29, Mark 14: 22-25

The Lord Jesus took bread and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said This is my body which is for you , do this in remembrance of me. In the same way, after supper, he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenent IN MY BLOOD, do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me.”

* * * John 6: 51-66

Live forever by eating the bread which is my flesh.

Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man AND drink his blood, you have no life in you.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day.

My flesh is real food [not metaphorical food] and my blood is real drink [not metaphorical drink].

Disciples said: This is hard teaching. Who can accept this?

Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you?”

From this time, many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

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Jesus’ rejection of God contaminates Christianity unless that his how Jesus saved us: Saved us from a God who did not help the Jews win the Battle of Galilee during the Jewish Revolt and from a God who did not help stop the destruction of Herod’s Temple.

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Asking and insisting to be remembered alongside the Jewish Revolt’s Cannibal Mary who ate half of her son and gave her son (the other half) is NOT Islamic, Shalom. It is not Islamic, Shalom.

The real Matthews, Marks, Lukes, Johns, and Paul/s lived after the Jewish Revolt.
Jewish Wars by Josephus, Book 6:

201. There was a certain woman that dwelt beyond Jordan, her name was Mary…

Come on, enough sucking my breast; be my food, and you be to these seditious, unprincipled and dishonest men a fury, a spirit of punishment, torture with stings of conscience, THE GUILTY who put us in this Great Tribulation. Son of Mary [biblical Jesus/New Testament Jesus], my son, be a byword: a person, a thing, cited to the world as a notorious example of our destruction.

Complete these calamities of us Jews. [Yes, the Testimonium Flavianum’s very next line is that the TF is a calamity followed by another calamity.]

208. As soon as she had said this, she cut her son. He died. She put him on a fire not in a makeshift cremation but she roasted him. She ate half of him. She kept the other half concealed.

Those of the sedition came. They threatened her that her throat would be cut if she did not show them what food she had gotten ready.

She replied that she had saved a very fine portion of it for them and uncovered what was left of her son [Jesus of Paul, Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John].

This WAS the body and blood of Jesus, not a metaphor, not transubstantiation.