Disagreement in scriptures

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Richard,

I belive the discussion of Mark 2:26 has missed the point completely.
To start with when Christ said that only the priest could eat the shew 
bread he told the truth (see Leviticus 24: 8-9.)

Christ excused the violation of the law as stated in Leviticus on the 
grounds that it was the only way out of the desperate mess that David was 
in. This excuse was part of Christs explanation for the technical 
violation of the sabath which is disciples had made.

I believe the question you asked is why did David try to excuse his use 
of the bread on the grounds of his own abstenance from sex, and the 
answer is people say all sorts of things when they are hungry.  It may be 
shock but David was capable of bending the truth (not David never said 
any one who abstained from sex for a period of time could eat the shew 
bread, but he pointed to the abstenance on the part of his men in a 
desperate effort to gain food.

Note the passage in Leviticus is prefaced "The Lord said unto Moses."
The passage in Mark is what Christ said.
The passage in second Samuel is merely what David said under duress not 
what God said to David.

If any one wants to claim that David was incapable of deception, they may 
claim there was no deception involved in the war he started to kill 
Basheba's husband.

	Grace and Peace in Jesus Name

"the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)

			Yeaton Clifton

			yhclifto@vela.acs.oakland.edu

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Richard Masoner wrote:

> 
> >     Richard> Mark 2:26 says it's lawful only for priests to eat the
> >     Richard> shewbread.  But in 1 Samuel 21:2-7, the priest Ahimelech
> >     Richard> told David that the only restriction in eating the
> >     Richard> shewbread was that the men have kept themselves from
> >     Richard> women.
> 
> > The behavior of David in eating the shewbread after being annointed to
> > be king was foreshadowing the time when *THE MAN* Christ Jesus was to
> > be both king and priest.  Thus David was the man in the middle -- the
> 
> David being priest doesn't fully address a couple of things however:
> 
> (1) David's band of merry men also ate the shewbread, since David
>     affirmed they hadn't been with women.  Perhaps David anointed
>     them as priests?
> 
> (2) That Mark 2:26 says only priests can eat shewbread, and 1 Sam 21:2-7
>     says any man who hasn't been with a woman for some amount of time
>     could eat bread.
> 
> Richard M.
>