(June 21, 2013 at 5:13 pm)cato123 Wrote:I don't see anything wrong with God allowing Pharaoh to harden his heart. He simply allowed YOU to become an atheist (I'm not condemning atheism, just stating how paradoxical it sounds that God would allow people to not believe in him.) He has allowed people to do terrible things around the world. These things bring people together and tear them apart. The Pharaoh had his choice, but he chose wrongly and was punished. When the Pharaoh messed up, God revealed himself to Egypt and a nation was born.(June 21, 2013 at 4:37 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: He covered the hardening of pharaoh's heart Cato. I think you missed it.
It was not covered. The idea was simply dismissed with a very foolish appeal to verb translation. The claim is meaningless in light of the fact that the author specifically states that God hardened Pharaoh's heart on nine seperate occaisions, three times has Pharaoh harden his own heart, and fails to say who's responsible for the hardening in five other instances. To now claim that God simply allowed Pharaoh to harden his own heart is a little ridiculous.
So we have: God uses Moses to harden Pharaoh's heart, Pharaoh has his heart hardened, and therefore, his heart is hard.
