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in the bible GOD hardens pharohs heart.........................?
and there are a number of people that he uses to destroy different nations and whatnot through out the bible. i mean a lot of killing and maiming. my question is that if GOD used this people to do these things are they responsible for the sin? or since they were GOD's instrument do they get a pass?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
Please understand that the Egyptians worshiped idols and were of a reprobate mind from Pharaoh's house on down. If you Research history you will find that God also brought about the demise of other such pagan societies. He is swift to punish. And when he does he utterly punishes.
Yes they are responsible for these sins and the outcomes. Pharaoh's heart wasn't the best in the beginning. Most believe his name was Ramses's.One can look up his dynasty and figure out how bent he really was. God just tipped his scales a little. It probably didn't take much.
Now observe how Abraham bargained with God to prevent the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah yet when it was all said and done God couldn't even find 5 righteous people in these 2 sinful city's. That's a sad commentary wouldn't you say so?
Trust that God is all knowing and all merciful to those who deserve mercy.Mercy is petitioned for by a repentant person. There were no such people in the societies he destroyed.They were content in their deviant behavior.God gives and it certainly within his rights to take at his discretion.And to that I say AMEN and Praise God.
Thank you.
- 10 years ago
We can adopt the idea that the bible was mistranslated when it causes an error in its ideology but not when the mistranslation rectifies an error. In the case of Pharaoh, God did not cause Pharaoh's heart to become obstinate but allowed it.
As far as when nations are destroyed, we either sympathize with the "victims" by saying the executioner's standard is injust or sympathize with the executioner when we say the wicked people's standards were too low.
In actuality, the Bible provides history regarding the wickedness of the people. Some can only assume they were innocent and God was wicked rather than they were wicked and God is Just. This is a question concerning how we compare ourselves to God. Whether we feel our own justice, love, and wisdom is greater than God's.
Pronouncing someone righteous when he's wicked is no wiser than pronouncing someone wicked when he's righteous. If you never met the canaanites, or the inhabitants of Gomorrah, how do you know they were guiltless? If you do not know God, how can you say he is wicked? Does putting the wicked to death mean God is wicked?
- ChrisHMLv 510 years ago
No we do not get a pass. No Pharoah does not get a pass. Pharoah believed what was happenning when it was happenning then scientifically or through being rational said "Naw, that just did not happen, there must be another reason for that to have happenned" People do this all the time. We like to see miracles but when we do we try to rationalize them. There are many shows on cable that scientifically rationalize the events in the bible like the Noahic flood and the parting of the Red Sea.
- kileyLv 45 years ago
First, Pharaoh replaced into no longer an harmless or godly guy. He replaced right into a brutal dictator overseeing the undesirable abuse and oppression of the Israelites, who possibly numbered over a million.5 million human beings at that factor. The Egyptian pharaohs had enslaved the Israelites for 4 hundred years. a prior pharaoh—possibly even the pharaoh in question—ordered that male Israelite toddlers be killed at delivery (Exodus a million:sixteen). The pharaoh God hardened replaced into an evil guy, and the country he governed agreed with, or a minimum of did no longer oppose, his evil strikes. 2nd, in the previous the 1st few plagues, Pharaoh hardened his very own heart against letting the Israelites go. “Pharaoh's heart grew to become hard” (Exodus 7:13, 22; 8:19). “yet while Pharaoh observed that there replaced into alleviation, he hardened his heart” (Exodus 8:15). “yet this time additionally Pharaoh hardened his heart” (Exodus 8:32). Pharaoh would have spared Egypt of all the plagues if he had no longer hardened his very own heart. God replaced into giving Pharaoh increasingly greater intense warnings of the judgment that replaced into to return. Pharaoh chosen to convey judgment on himself and on his united states of america by using hardening his very own heart against God’s instructions. Pharaoh and Egypt had delivered those judgments on themselves with 4 hundred years of slavery and mass homicide. because of the fact the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), and Pharaoh and Egypt had horribly sinned against God, it would have been basically if God had thoroughly annihilated Egypt. subsequently, God’s hardening Pharaoh’s heart replaced into no longer unjust, and His bringing extra plagues against Egypt replaced into no longer unjust. The plagues, as undesirable as they have been, quite show God’s mercy in no longer thoroughly destroying Egypt, which could have been a superbly basically penalty. Pharaoh wasn't going to hearken to God besides. From a human attitude, it style of feels incorrect for God to harden a guy or woman and then punish the guy He has hardened. Biblically talking, even with the incontrovertible fact that, we've all sinned against God (Romans 3:23), and the basically penalty for that sin is death (Romans 6:23). subsequently, God’s hardening and punishing a guy or woman isn't unjust; that's quite merciful in assessment to what the guy merits.
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- SongLv 610 years ago
Not all humans are created the same. Some may not have an immortal soul. Pharaoh, for instance, was destroyed, and does not live forever. I have known quite a few people in my life that are not interested in living forever, and wouldn't be in the slightest bit equipped to do it if it was thrust upon them. But the simple fact is that in this day and age we have Christ, the Holy Spirit, to lead us to salvation, and it is available to any person who chooses to seek it. Pharaoh was never created to have that choice. You and everyone else you know were made to have that choice.
- ReneLv 710 years ago
Romans 8:28
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
- GregoryLv 710 years ago
yes they are responsible for their sin if they commit it
god is not causing them to sin they are sinning willingly
- Anonymous10 years ago
that is why religion is so scary to me. you even ask the question. we are doomed