٦. Chapters ١١ and ١٢ of ٢ Samuel note that David committed adultery with the wife of Uriah, the believer and warrior for the faith. She became pregnant from this act of adultery, and David feared a scandal. To conceal the matter from Uriah, he sent for him and ordered him to enter his house. Uriah refused, saying: "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field; shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing" (٢ Sam.
١١:١١). When David despaired of covering up the matter, he kept Uriah with him that day and invited him to eat. Uriah ate with him and drank and David made him get drunk. In the morning, David wrote to Joab: "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die" (٢ Sam. ١١:١٦). Joab did that and Uriah was slain, and Joab sent a messenger to David to inform him about it. David thus brought Uriahs wife to his house, and she became his wife after her mourning for [Uriah] ended. Chapter ١ of Matthew re‌ lates that Solomon, son of David, was born of that woman.
Imagine how the writer of this account has transgressed against God, and how
these deeds can be ascribed to anyone with a modicum of decency and religious zeal, let alone a prophet of God! And [imagine] how such a tale can be reconciled with the assertion, in the Gospel of Luke, that Christ sits on the throne of David, his father!

٧. Chapter ١١ of the Book of ١ Kings relates that Solomon had seven hundred wives of high rank, and three hundred concubines. The women turned his heart to other gods. "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites. So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.... And the Lord was angry with Solomon ... and said, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant" (١ Kings ١١:٤-١٢).
Chapter ٢٣ of ٢ Kings relates that the tall structures that Solomon built for Ashtoreth, the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, were defiled by King Josiah, who broke the images and tore down the pillars. He did similar things to all the other structures of the idolaters.
Assuming that it is not necessary for a prophet to be divinely guided against error‌ although the rational proofs do establish this inerrancy-is it reasonably admissible for him to worship idols and build them lofty structures, and then invite people to affirm the oneness of God, and to worship Him? Never!

٨. Chapter ١ of Hosea relates that Hosea was the first person to whom the Lord spoke. The Lord said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of harlotry and have children of harlotry, for the land commits great harlotry by forsaking the Lord." So, Hosea went and took Gomer, the daughterofDiblaim, and she conceived and bore him two sons and a daughter (Hos. ١:٣). Chapter ٣ relates that the Lord said to Hosea, "Go again, love a woman who is the beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel" (Hos. ٣:١-٢).
Is this Gods way, commanding His prophet to commit adultery and to love an adulteress? Exalted is He above that. It is no surprise that the author [of the Book of Hosea] did not perceive the evil in [such an attribution]. What is surprising is that