The Ten Plagues.....Why did God make Pharooah stubborn?

Question

God sent Moses to go Free the Hebrews out of Egypt. But first God had to show How Almighty and powerfull he is. Why did God do that? He didn't stop until He killed the Egyptians First borne!!!

Isn't that Kinda childish from God? Did the plagues realy happen as it was written in the Bible?

Answer 1

Read closer. Every time it says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart it is preceded by "Pharaoh hardened his heart."

God was confirming the choice of hardness that Pharaoh was making. We all have free will or sovereignty over our own hearts. If we choose to be soft and open to God, God responds by making us more that way. But if we determine to harden our hearts God reluctantly allows us to have our way.

God's ways are much higher than ours, perfect in every way. He knows all things and sees all things. God's dealings with Pharaoh were for a specific purpose, though we may not see it today. One thing to consider though is that God was giving Pharaoh an opportunity to change his mind and be saved. You would think that after 9 miracles Pharaoh would wake up and see the truth. It is God's patience that allowed Pharaoh so many opportunities to change His mind.

God warns us about sin, not because He is waiting to punish us but because He knows that sin is dangerous and deadly and wants to save us the pain and death. Sin isn't bad/dangerous because God says it is, God says it's sin because it is bad/dangerous. Much like how I would tell my 2 year old that an electric socket is to be avoided. I know that there is a dangerous consequence if she plays with that socket, so it is with God and sin.

Answer 2

There are many documentaries tackling about the ten plagues whether they really happened that way that they were written or not.

Personally i think that it was Pharaoh's pride that led to the horrible plagues. Free will, right? Free will justifies why it had to be that way. And the Israelites were God's chosen people because it was from this tribe that Our Savior will come upon.

It's all in God's Plan

Answer 3

Here's a theory.

The Gnostics believe that the God of the Old Testament was actually Satan, and that Jesus' coming was the first arrival of God in the world. So, Satan would have had no problem killing baby Egyptians.

Or, God wanted to prove a point. I personally give God more credit than that and believe that the ten plagues did not happen as desribed in the bible. God loves all his children and would never punish the innocent.

Answer 4

God does not make anyone anyway. He gives us free will and it is our choice as to how we are and what we do. Yes the plagues were as the bible says. God is not mean or childish. He is perfect in every way. Pharaoh could have stopped the plagues at any time by obey the god that created him. Yes god is love but he is also a jealous god. He created us and sent his prophet and then Jesus to show us the way. If we chose not to follow his way then any thing that happens to us is our own fault.

Answer 5

As a matter of fact, the plagues did take place.
The Egyptians were warned, the didn't heed the warning to
place the blood of the lamb on the door. Because of Pharoh's own volition his son was killed. It was a test of Pharoh's Obedience, and an acknowledgement of his strength, the plagues were to show that pharoah had stength from God.

Answer 6

First you have to realize that we are not these physical bodies. I know that's hard to accept in these materialistic times but true. I could prove that to you but there is not near enough room here. Jesus affirms this when he asked "Why are you afraid of those who can kill the body but not the soul. Rather you should be afraid of He who can kill both the body and soul in Hell". That God had to do these things to make it clear to the world at that time, and now, that He was and is protecting the Jews, speaks to how dense and thick headed we humans are! Speaking of how stupid we are, God tells us in both the Old Testament and the New, that He loves all of us, wants us to love Him in return, and to treat our brothers and sisters in a loving way. He says that if we do that He will send us Blessings and if we don't we are in trouble. Then we criticise God when we get in the trouble He said we would avoid if we did what He says. I would say that to call Him childish when we disobey Him, Our Father, and He has to spank us in love, is the most childish of all.

Answer 7

God did not make Pharoah stubborn. God gives free will to everyone. You are right that the Bible states, "God hardened Pharoah's heart." which makes it sound like God is controlling Pharoah. That would be silly since God is telling Moses to tell Pharoah to "Let My people go." God did cause the plagues, so Pharoah reacted with being unwilling to cooperate and stubborn. God knew Pharoah's heart and how to turn the screw, so to speak. God knew what He was doing. The Egyptians had been idolotrous worshipping idols and God was responding by giving them what they were praying to... They had fly gods, frog gods, pestilence gods, gods they sacrificed children to themselves, so God was not in the wrong. He was giving them what they asked for. God knew Pharoah was controlling and God was fed up with the idolotry. Especially since the time of change from slavery was up for His chosen people, Israel. He heard their cry.

Answer 8

How did you understand who hardened Pharaoh's heart? it would were God himself. yet in case you ant to be effective, there have been numerous dozen translations of the Bible made in the perfect 60 years or so. you may search for advice from countless variations. because you're consulting a Bible with "-eth" variations of verbs, that's likely the King James translation, which replaced into made merely over four hundred years in the past. The language in that translation is in a lot of places very captivating, although that's four hundred years previous. The English language has moved on because that then. numerous straight forward words in that translation have replaced very much, such that they recommend just about the different of their which ability four hundred years in the past, which could bring about puzzlement in some aspects.

Answer 9

Actually vendredi, if YOU would read closer, the passages you are referring to are a validation of Gods divine will in choosing to harden Pharaohs heart.

One must remember one very simple, yet vital fact about Jehovah. He is the God of the Israelites. Not the God of the Midianites, the Canaanites, or the Egyptians OR the Gentiles. He is the God of the Jews.

The entire story of the Exodus is intended to be a lesson for the Jews about the fierce power of their God against their enemies. The Old Testament is filled with these stories. Exodus is simply the barbaric Bronze Age God of the Israelites at His finest.

The God of the Jews feels no remorse about killing innocents, raping virgins, destroying cities, or any other horrible deed as long as it is against enemies of the Israelites. In fact, what atrocities He doesn't commit outright, He commands His most righteous minions to commit.

His cruelty and sadism are unsurpassed in mythology. Murder, starvation, torture, genocide, rape, and disease are His stock in trade.

Try bearing that in mind as you read about His atrocities.
-SD-

Answer 10

Rom.Chpt. 9

20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

In other words, you don't have the right to ask that question.

Imagine a serial child molester, in court, trying to insult the character of the judge. What utter nonsense.
You are on trial; not God.

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