2006-12-25 06:20:50 · 12 answers · asked by Atlas 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Was it so there could be more drama?
2006-12-25 06:21:10 · update #1
What the hell? A test? Come up with something better than that.
2006-12-25 06:24:01 · update #2
I can understand that Hedgehog.
2006-12-25 06:24:58 · update #3
"that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt"
Showboating. Gotcha.
2006-12-25 06:27:35 · update #4
In the old Testament we have a few instances of hearts that had been hardened by God. God told Moses that he would harden the heart of Pharoah in Exodus 4:21. Moses was also told that God would harden Pharoah's heart in Exodus 7:3 and 14:4. So does God merely choose someone randomly whose heart he wishes to harden for no reason other than causing opposition to his people? Of course he does not. God is a just God (Psalm 62:12 and 89:14) and hardening a believing heart would not be according to God's revealed character. Prior to Exodus 4, Pharoah had already tightened his grip on the nation of Israel out of fear of their numbers (Exodus 1:8-11) and had ordered Hebrew midwives to kill males that they aided Israelite women give birth to (1:15-16), among other things (Exodus 2:15). Pharoah had already set himself up opposed to God and because of this, he was used to bring glory to God. In each of the verses where God tells Moses that he will harden the heart of Pharoah, God also includes the purpose of why he will be doing it. In Exodus 4:21-23 we find that God will harden Pharoah's heart so that Pharoah will not let the people of God go. From verse 23 of chapter 4 we can know that God planned from this point forward to use the already corrupted heart of Pharoah to execute his plan of freeing the nation of Israel that would carry through Exodus 14. The purpose he gives in Exodus 7:3 ("that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt" - NASV) coordinates with the purpose he gives in Exodus 14:4 ("I will be honored through Pharoah and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord." - NASV) which is the same purpose he gives for hardening the hearts of the Egyptians (Egyptian army to be more exact) in Exodus 14:17.
So what application does this have to Christians and people in the world today? It emphasizes the fact that God will not deal indefinitely with people who have let their hearts become corrupted. In the first chapter of Romans, we are introduced to a group of people who Paul says were "without excuse" (Romans 1:20). These people knew God (Romans 1:21) yet they treated him as if they did not, participating in idolatry (Romans 1:23). Because of this, God gave them over to homosexual practices (which can be overcome like any other sin - 1 Corinthians 6:9-11), which Paul describes as a "depraved mind" in verse 28. All that we read happened to these people in Romans 1:24-32 happened because they had darkened their hearts (1:21). What makes a heart darkened? Look to Romans 2:5 where Paul tells another group of people who are "without excuse" that they have stubbornness and unrepentant hearts. This same idea is discussed by Paul again in a letter to the church at Thessalonica in 2 Thessalonians 2:11.
2006-12-25 06:25:16 · answer #1 · answered by latenightdrives 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
be conscious that Pharaoh had 11 distinctive possibilities to enable the individuals bypass. God in basic terms "hardened" his coronary heart on 4 of those events. the different seven Pharaoh made his very own determination to no longer loose the individuals. you will additionally be conscious that on those 7 events Pharaoh promised to enable the individuals bypass in substitute for an end to the plague, and then he replaced his coronary heart and refused to enable them to bypass. the only circumstances he did no longer substitute his be conscious replaced into on the 4 events while God hardened his coronary heart. and each of those circumstances he made no promise to enable the individuals bypass. there is no reason, given his trend, to have faith that had God no longer "hardened his coronary heart", that he could have enable the Israelites bypass. extremely each reason to have faith the different. interior the hardening of his coronary heart, God in elementary terms compelled him to stay along with his unique determination extremely than to maintain changing his suggestions. in case you study for the duration of the quite a few flora destroyed via the plagues, you will see that the competition between Moses and Pharaoh went on for style of 18 months, by using fact each time Pharaoh backed out on his can provide. interior the top God choose for to end the ingredient, and loose the individuals (after yet another 12 months and a million/2 of abuse) via refusing to enable Pharaoh substitute his coronary heart as quickly as he had desperate to no longer enable the individuals bypass. That allowed God to hold issues to the factor the place the individuals have been finally freed. God did no longer make a sort, comfortable, loving Pharaoh do something evil against his will. extremely he in basic terms held the Pharaoh to the depraved judgements that he had already made.
2016-10-18 23:35:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pharoh didnt quickly do anything since god could read pharohs heart and Mind he knew in advance the outcome and he had edetermined that he would have his people released but to show haughty pharoh who considered himself a god he personally humiliated each of Egypts gods and showed him and all that they were powerless and worthless as no power in creation can stop Gods will and pharoh issued a challenge and lost so he and his army was destroyed and Pharoh then had to acknowledge that Gos whose name he tauntd and mocked as mentioned in Ps 83;18 would answer and prove his Godship , power and right to rule his people so pharoh who thought himself to be an invincible and all powerfull god was given a lesson in soverignity that all Egypt would remember and their false gods in whom they put their trust proved to be powerless and useless the same holds true today Ps 115:4-8 pharohs superficial agreement was so as to get rid of the plagues he had no real intention to comply with Gods wishes as told by Moses and he had the nerve to dictate terms to the Soverign Lord of the universe so like other rullers he had to be taught a lesson in humility and exactly who was the True God and who was the false god get the point now Gorbalizer
2006-12-25 06:42:53 · answer #3 · answered by gorbalizer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This concept of a male deity who needs to be exalted, thanked, honored, praised, worshipped, adored, venerated, adulated, extolled, complimented, admired, glorified and idolized is completely out of date and belongs to the Stone Age, when so-called savages were afraid of their own shadows and attributed everything that happened to them to a deranged god creature somewhere in outer space. This kind of thinking does not belong to this age, when humanity must stop putting responsibility for its own messy creation on such an imaginary creature as the white male god who sits on a throne in a nebulous heaven.
Let's get off this warped interpretation of God. God, which is simply Great Spirit, the Tao, the Cosmic Yin/Yang, the Creative Life Force, the Schwartz, or the Big Nothing, has no need for praise of any kind, because it is an entity complete unto itself. It is not a sickly human being who feels as if nobody loves it if other petty and puny human beings don't suck up to it and tell it is loved. No intelligent person is buying this rubbish anymore. No thinking person with any self-esteem is falling upon his or her knees to lick the boots of a giant old man with a white beard who has the power to bestow accommodations in Heaven. The game is up.
2006-12-25 06:36:08 · answer #4 · answered by Medusa 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. It seemed like God wanted the Pharaoh to oppose Moses so he could plague the Egyptians and end up drowning their army.
2006-12-25 06:23:00 · answer #5 · answered by some teenager 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It was in order to show His power and let Egypt as well as Israel know who the true God really was. (back then the Pharaoh was considered to be a god and he was worshipped by his followers)
2006-12-25 06:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by shorty 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he only hardened his heart latter.
The reason why is to give him the choice.
One thing is to give in under pressure, but G-d wanted him to do it willingly.
The hardening was like giving painkillers to a guy who is being tortured. He should give in under his own desire not because of the pain.
2006-12-25 06:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't feel bad, that was one of those "manipulative god" questions that started me down the rapid slope of failure to believe in a creator god. Another shot that makes the idea of such a god illogical.
2006-12-25 06:23:43 · answer #8 · answered by vinslave 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It was most likely to illustrate that trusting your enemies and going out merrily while still in the shadow of their kingdom is a very foolish thing. The evil are reluctant to change.
2006-12-25 06:23:47 · answer #9 · answered by Tofu Jesus 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Pharaoh didn't agree.
He said no 9 times, and then finally said yes when his firstborn died.
God hardened his heart as punishment.
2006-12-25 06:25:01 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋