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Pharoah hardened his own heart by the things that God exposed him to. You see God knew what would harden Pharoah's heart so if God wouldn't have exposed Pharoah to the things that would have hardened his heart then his heart wouldn't have been hardened. This is why both are true that God and Pharoah hardened Pharoah's heart.
That is why both statements are found in our beautiful bible:
Exo_8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
Exo_9:12 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
Not true, why would the writer even change who was doing the hardening unless he was trying to show us something ?.
I think half the problem is, to them universal reconciliation cannot work if God is not sovereign in the way they translate it. The thing is UR is not the whole revelation of God, it is the road back to the Father.
If the Scriptures reveal to us God's sovereignty and reveals He will save all, it must be the two work together to accomplish that which He declared from the beginning.
I think half the problem is, to them universal reconciliation cannot work if God is not sovereign in the way they translate it. The thing is UR is not the whole revelation of God, it is the road back to the Father.
I understand.
It's also their way of dealing with "the problem of evil", by saying there is no problem with evil, that's what God wants.
We're all just trying to make sense of our reality. But they've got a long row to hoe to explain how the God who is light and love and good causing people to walk in darkness and unlove and evil, makes sense.
The same God Who is love and light will do this to humanity:
Rev_17:17 for God imparts to their hearts to form His opinion,
and to form one opinion, and to give their kingdom to the wild beast,
until the words of God shall be accomplished."
Now why would God put in into their hearts to form His opinion and to form one opinion to give their kingdom to the wild beast? Whatever happened to sweet baby Jesus?
I'll tell you why. Because they must learn Who ultimately is in control and that He is working all together for good. That's why.
2Th 2:11 And therefore God will be
sending them an operation of deception,
for them to believe the falsehood,
Now why would God deceive all those people so that they believe the falsehood?
He doesn't do it just to do it. He doesn't just throw dice and maybe He will or will not do it.
No, He will do it because that is what they need to experience what He needs them to experience.
This is what I love about God. He holds everyone accountable regardless of what you do or don't believe. God revealed to me that accepting Jesus Christ as your savior is a form of taking responsibility for your life. He paid the price with his life so that we could be saved. Recognizing that universal truth and receiving his blood is taking ownership for your life.
This is what I love about God. He holds everyone accountable regardless of what you do or don't believe. God revealed to me that accepting Jesus Christ as your savior is a form of taking responsibility for your life. He paid the price with his life so that we could be saved. Recognizing that universal truth and receiving his blood is taking ownership for your life.
But if your a Christian you are dead. He lives His life through you at that point. It is His life taking ownership of us.
In Ex.7:3 aqshe is "harden" as in "I will harden Pharaoh's heart."
In 8:32 "uikbd" is "gloried" as in "Yet Pharaoh gloried in his heart,
So wouldn't that mean that the Lord "gloried" Pharoah's heart here:
Exo 10:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might shew these my signs before him:
For it the same word. Surely it means to have made Pharoah heart weighty as in tipping a scale.
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