@kellyjay saidHave you actually read Exodus 4:21?
Showing him exactly what was true caused him to harden his heart, it is a warning for everyone as well to not do that. Some simply don’t want to see and will not no matter what is shown them, the greater the truth revealed the harder their hearts become.
The LORD instructed Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidGod is sovereign it isn't something I can shy away from, but unlike us, He can give us
Have you actually read Exodus 4:21?
The LORD instructed Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
choices we get to make them and still work all things out by His will.
Nothing I have said voids that, when we write books those we write about have no
say in anything they do, they are good because we write them that way, with no
choice whatsoever, while God isn't limited He can give us choices, we make them
and He can still work all things out following His will. For that to happen He does
have to allow things to occur He doesn't like, to keep it all authentic. There cannot
be real love if the choice to say no isn't real. So working it out so that we who were
made in His image can love, we also have the ability not to, making it very ugly
but real. You'd prefer a robotic universe?
@kellyjay saidThis sounds like a case of "put as much generic material between me and my clanger about the Pharaoh as I can" and hope it gets forgotten.
God is sovereign it isn't something I can shy away from, but unlike us, He can give us
choices we get to make them and still work all things out by His will.
Nothing I have said voids that, when we write books those we write about have no
say in anything they do, they are good because we write them that way, with no
choice whatsoever, while God isn't limited He can giv ...[text shortened]... ve, we also have the ability not to, making it very ugly
but real. You'd prefer a robotic universe?