Miracles and Anti-supernaturalism

[Undeceived]

Now what about the Vessels of Wrath that God has created to shew his righteousness to men?

Was Pharaoh’s heart contrary to Pharaoh's will, or in accordance with it?

Apparently he needs his creations to give back to him in the form of sacrifice and devotion. According to the Holy Babble, this is pleasing to the Lord. The smell of burning flesh was like catnip for god.

"In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor." Genesis 4:3-5

Both sacrifices were outwardly perfect. But God read each of their hearts and accepted the sacrifice of Abel, who gave gratefully, unlike Cain, who was bitter.

"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but my ears you have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require." Psalm 40:6

"You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise." Psalm 51:6

"It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But he has appeared once for all at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself." Hebrews 9:23-26

As these verses indicate, OT sacrifice served as an image by which God's creation could understand the one true sacrifice--Jesus himself. As Abraham told Isaac, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering" (Genesis 22:8).