Phil Robertson

And just a key difference between Saul and David is that David –

takes responsibility for his actions and Saul doesn't.

And I've been reading this other book talking about kind of like biblical manhood and just think about manhood in general.

And that's one of the, I think the key things about becoming a man is taking responsibility for your actions.

But Saul at every point blamed someone else.

Samuel doesn't, he blamed Samuel because he didn't show up on time.

He blames the troops because they didn't do what he said.

He blames the Jonathan because he was hungry.

You know, he keeps passing on this blame instead of taking responsibility for his actions.

I had a thought on just the course overall and specifically talking about Samuel.

I feel like reading this course like this and watching the course with Dr. Jackson really kind of brings these characters to life in a way that I've never really thought about them.

I think growing up, I've read this and read it, I don't want to say like more theologically, but very more like literally, more like, oh, this is like history.

And because of that, I've kind of glazed over some of the more

spiritual aspects of it in the more kind of like the, for lack of a better word, like God doing these like miracles kinds of things and thinking about what does that mean for the character?

What does that mean for, you know, the people?

And I think like on chapter 12, which he didn't really get into this chapter 12, when Samuel,

gets angry and he calls down the thunder and lightning.

That was just another thing.

I read that and thought that you got, Saul should have a little more respect for Samuel and everyone, all the Israelites have got to be terrified of this guy.

He's, he's chopping people up.