IF There Was God...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But God deliberately deluded them into believing a heretical falsehood for the express purpose of denying them redemption. This rather puts the the lie to your claim that God doesn’t muck about with free will.

Also, you might want to have a butcher’s at Exodus 20.

Boru

The quote is from a prophecy as yet unfulfilled, as to what YHWH will do in the last few years of the latter days, just prior to the Millennial reign, not what he has done, to those that refuse the truth he offers, and has offered long and patiently, desiring only a meeting of minds and hearts.
 
The Most High is not leading those who choose lies over truth into anything but allows them their own choice. He but gives into their decision. And as the decision is what keeps them from the salvation that would prevent this end, he chooses to simply amplifies their choice, and make use of it to his own ends. And yet, had they but accepted the truth, and lived by it to the best of their ability, all of this would have bypassed them.

Freewill is given, but it does provoke consequences, just as you cannot throw a stone into a pond, and not have a lot of inconvenient ripples.

As for Exodus 20, there is a lot of instruction there on how to live. Which did you wish to discuss?

Whups, my bad. Exodus 10, not 20.

Boru