Yahweh hardening Pharaoh's heart never made any sense. He wants him to let Moses and his people go, but he apparently also was really set on giving Egypt a bunch of plagues. Even still, he could have given Egypt plagues AFTER the Hebrews left Egypt. Would it have been a dick move? Yes. But so was the flood.
Yahweh: Oh no, Pharaoh is going to do what I told him to do. Better harden his heart so he won't do what I want him to do, so he can do what I want him to do later.
Yahweh: Oh no, Pharaoh is going to do what I told him to do. Better harden his heart so he won't do what I want him to do, so he can do what I want him to do later.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
