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NASB | Exodus 7:3 "But I will harden Pharaoh's heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 7:3 "And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and multiply My signs and My wonders (miracles) in the land of Egypt. |
Subject: Re: Ex 33:19 |
Bible Note: Hiram, my friend, I assure you that my post was no attempt to resurrect the election vs. free-will debate that raged on and on some time ago on the forum. My point is that the Bible makes it abundantly clear that God is a sovereign God and as such can do, and does, what He pleases. Frankly, Hiram, I couldn't agree with you more. God's sovereign election is above my head, too. And, as for that matter, slightly above the heads of both Calvinists and Arminians and everyone in between who presume to understand it completely. No one can presume to understand all there is to understand, or to know all there is to know, about the transcendent God. Some things, if not most of them, God reserved for His province alone. It is therefore fatuous and inane, if indeed not blasphemous, of us created beings to question God or to appear to offer our paltry schemes and suggestions to Him for doing things in a better way than He does. We find ourselves at times engaged in some vain attempt to extract from the Bible things that simply aren't there, to ask "biblical" questions about things on which the Bible is silent, and to ignore things about which the Bible shouts. It is, in my estimation Hiram, a mark of wisdom, not ignorance, when one has the courage and honesty to admit, as you have, that certain things are way over our heads. And I love your statement: "It is enough to know that He saved me regardless of whether He chose me or I came to Him of my own free will." No debate here; there is neither reason nor room for it! Blessings to you, Hiram Abiff. --Hank |