In the Biblical worldview, free will is real as function, but it never establishes people as independent sources of their own actions. Think of it like an instrument: music comes out, but the instrument is not the composer.Thus, when God hardened Pharoah heart, this was not some 1-off aberration, nor was it an override on his free will. The point is subtler: God’s action works through people’s wills, not around them. People genuinely will what they will—and thus are accountable—while God remains the ultimate source of the whole causal event.God causes everything.
>>18629161Everyone is in God's hands, you do good and are just and fair and he is good with you but if you are evil and cruel you are his enemy and he has no reason to be fair with you. God does whatever he pleases, nobody can tell him what to do. Falling into his hands is a horrible thing. He is not limited by anything or anyone.If a man is ferocious against those who hurt his children imagine then hurting the children of the living God.Youre better off kicking a lion in the balls while naked and covered in blood than to hurt the sons of the Sovereign of heaven and earth.
>>18629161We don't have free will anymore. You can choose to accept God or not but that's about as far as our free will goes, if you choose God, He is the one who moves your life after that. Otherwise, you're a slave to your flesh and environment.
600K jews wander around the desert for 40 years while leaving 0 archeological evidence behind.Yeah seems legit LOL
>>18629234I think you missed the subtlety. Free will is still functionally real. It’s just not libertarian.
>>18629256Why don't people just free will themselves to be happy or free will themselves to stop sinning? >>18629247There is plenty of archeological evidence, free will yourself to google it.
>>18629161>when God hardened Pharoah heartliteral nigger grammar and spelling. get the fuck out of here.
>>18629272> Why don't people just free will themselves to be happy or free will themselves to stop sinning?I have a friend who swears that he agencies himself into positivity and happiness. That’s his entire life philosophy. It’s not actually libertarian, but it’s freely willed happiness for him at that time and place. Sin is a different beast, it’s not natural for the human will to will grace and indeed it requires grace.
>>18629298Bump
>>18629161>God causes everything.No, he does not. He is not the author of sin.
>>18629161>but it never establishes people as independent sources of their own actionsIt means the pharaoh was Schizo-Phrenic. His head and heart were in disunity, so when his heart was hardened he made different moral choices than when it was softened. The pharaoh was shown proper morality...but when rehardened he would contradict his own feelings for his bruised-ego. The brain is a meta-feminine organ, so he was ruled by his inner woman (also why they say women shouldnt rule, externally or internally.)My heart being harded doesnt effect me or my choices and I can do it, basically, at will. Nothing changes, because my head and heart and in unity with each other.t.Amun Ra the Seventh of Three
>>18629161I have no idea why Christians and Atheists get so confused by compatibilism
>>18629272There is no archaeological evidence of the Exodus whatsoever.
>>18630676Yeah there is. Google it.
>>18630138‘God is not the author of sin’ means God does not sin or morally intend evil as evil. It cannot mean sinful events possess an independent causal source outside God. Otherwise, where does their actuality come from? The sinner supplies the sinful intention; God remains the sovereign cause sustaining the agent, power, and event. Joseph gives the biblical geometry: ‘You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good’ (Gen. 50:20). One event, two intentions; no second Generator.
>>18630138> He is not the author of sin> what is the cross
>>18630138Who has the power of cration? If it's not god alone you have polytheism by default.
>>18631501The final idol is the illusion of autonomous selfhood
