(January 15, 2016 at 6:26 am)robvalue Wrote: Hmm, I just realized that if Drich really does think the Exodus happened as written, it exposes yet another contradiction. Drich says there is no free will, yet the stories clearly state God "hardens the heart" of the Pharoah. He does this to make him refuse to free the slaves, so he can continue to justify to himself sending down more cruel plagues.
This clearly implies that the Pharoah would normally have had at least some other choice he could have made.
No free will does not mean we don't have any choices.
Even slaves have choices. If a 17th century slave is told it is ok for him to pick out a wife and marry, does he not have the ability to do what he has been allowed to do? Now just because the slave has been given the right to pick out a wife does it mean his master will allow him to pick out a boy/man for his mate? what if he decides to just rape all the women in the pool of potential wives.. do you think the slave owner would allow that? No. But again that is what 'free will' is. It is complete autonomy apart from God's ultimate boarders he has placed on our lives. we do not have this ablity.
You are mistaken free will with freedom to choose what God has allow us to chose from. In the case of pharaoh that was taken away when God hardened his heart.
