What If God Judges Us Like We Judge Others

[bbyrd009]

Well, but you point to the subjective nature of understanding? "One little mistake" to you is actually an act of treason that your president would kill you for, right now today. And you take "God hardened his heart" to mean that God actively did something here to harden Pharoah's heart, when this is not true, or at least can be understood differently with an open mind? "Pharoah's heart was hardened because of God" is another translation, which points to the probability that God didn't do anything here except "Be," and Pharoah's heart was hardened because he saw that he was not in fact God.

You can insist on interpretations that lack understanding all you like, this will not make God into satan, no matter how hard you try. Moses was denied the Promised land as a type, so that we might see that it is easy to suppose some earthly sovereignty, and that people might even encourage you in this, but that doesn't sanctify it before God, and it will cost you your place in the Kingdom.

Um, and those first-born of Egypt? Their parents got the same warning that the Hebrews got, and my understanding is that there is some evidence that many Egyptians complied with the "Passover" here and were not stricken, although I've forgotten where I heard this. The point is it is most obviously sure to be true. If you believed that your Pharoah was a god, you now have cause to doubt, yes? Your sorrow for some babies being returned to their reward seems naive, and misplaced here. Are you sorry for the devil, too?