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Response to comment [from a Christian]: "It was kinda funny to see O'Reilly because he wants to be on the same side as Hume but he knows inside he isn't."

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "To Christians, in large part, they don't take issue with Brit's comments. Yet, if he were to suggest Tiger should convert to Islam, they would be up in arms about him espousing his personal views."

"I'm confused: does Islam offer forgiveness of sins? That was Brit's point, you know - that Christianity is the only religion that offers a second chance; a clean slate; forgiveness of sins. Which, coincidentally, is precisely what Tiger needs just now (and everyone else for that matter). Redemption is amazingly good stuff."

The false god of Islam is punitive. The true God proved his love (Ro 5:8). Hume should feel free to express his views. Had he spoken in Independence Hall in 1787 (http://www.ushistory.org/tour/tour_indhall.htm), his comments would not have been considered out of place. Don't buy the post-Christian America. We were founded as a Judeo-Christian nation. Challenge the liberal when he attempts to change history.

Hume is a born again Christian. Obviously, he is going to give the best advice he can. It is always right to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Tiger is a broken man. What better time to remind him of Christ's love and forgiveness.

Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Shouldn't he be looking for forgiveness from his wife first and foremost?"

"David has been criticized because he made this statement. There are those who say he should not have said it was a sin against God; he should have said it was a sin against Bathsheba. Wasn’t it? It sure was. Also it was a sin against his family, for he had a family at that time. It was a sin against them, and David should have said that, so the critics say. They also say that it was a sin against society and Jerusalem at that time, and it was. It was a sin against the nation of which he was king. He was breaking God’s commandment. But, my friend, in the final analysis sin is always against God. Bathsheba is gone. I do not know where her family is. The society of that day has disappeared. Actually, the nation is no longer under the line of David. But that sin still stands on the escutcheon of the Word of God and against God.

Let’s read the historical record again, as it is very important. This is what God said to David: “Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife” (2 Sam. 12:10). “And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die” (2 Sam. 12:13–14). For three thousand years now the enemy, the critic, has been pointing his finger at the Word of God and saying, “You mean to tell me that David is a man after God’s own heart?” I heard this on Pershing Square in Los Angeles several years ago. A man had gathered around him a crowd—he was a disheveled, dirty-looking fellow, with a leer in his voice and on his face. He said to them, “Now they say God is holy!” Then he gave a suggestive laugh and made some filthy statements about David, and said, “They say He is a holy God!”

God said to David, “David, you’ve hurt Me.” One night I went with some friends to Bughouse Square in Chicago (that corresponds to Pershing Square in Los Angeles, and that’s a better name than Pershing Square, by the way), and there was the worst filth I’ve ever heard. I never have heard a man as filthy as he was. And who was he talking about? David. God said, “David, you’ve given great occasion to My enemies to blaspheme, and because of that the child will die, and the sword will never leave your house.” And it never did. To his dying day David paid for his sin. Not only that child died, but the son he loved, the one he wanted to succeed him as king, also died. When David heard that his son Absalom had been killed in battle, he wrapped his mantle about his head, walked to the top of the wall, up those winding stairs, and as he went up he wept, “… O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!” (2 Sam. 18:33). David did not think Absalom was saved; he wanted him to live. My friend, David paid for his sin.

McGee, J. V. (1997, c1981). Thru the Bible commentary. Based on the Thru the Bible radio program. (electronic ed.) (2:763-764). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.