Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site burdvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cadre!psuvax1!burdvax!bnapl From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Newsgroups: net.origins,net.religion,net.religion.christian Subject: Re: The true God lives in the real world Message-ID: <2109@burdvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 10:46:09 EDT Article-I.D.: burdvax.2109 Posted: Thu Sep 5 10:46:09 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Sep-85 09:55:29 EDT References: <304@pyuxn.UUCP> <2137CJC@psuvm> <397@scgvaxd.UUCP> Reply-To: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht) Organization: Burroughs Corp. - SDG/Devon Lines: 24 Xref: linus net.origins:2130 net.religion:711500002 net.religion.christian:823 In article mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: > >> The fact that God hardened Pharoah's heart doesn't release Pharoah >> from responsibility for his own actions. This is an old theological >> debate from way back. Can free will and God's sovereignty both exist >> at the same time. The answer is YES! > >Hardening Pharoh's heart is clearly a god manipulating a human contrary >to the human's will, however much you deny it. Pharoh might well have >released them without that interference. > Incorrect. The Bible teaches that the heart (i.e. will) of man is evil and wicked. Pharaoh, on his own, could have acted no other way. The unregenerate man (Pharaoh) can only act according to his nature, which Pharaoh did in this case. What happened to Pharaoh happens to every person who rejects God and His offer of salvation. -- Tom Albrecht Burroughs Corp. ...{presby|psuvax1|sdcrdcf}!burdvax!bnapl Communism is to government what astrology is to science.