Just look at Exodus, and how God
hardened the Pharaohs heart to not let his people go.
Your invisible man in the sky is at fault for killing all the first born in Egypt because your god was responsible for
hardening the pharaoh's heart so he wouldn't allow Moses to take his people out.
Pharaoh hardened his heart, then God
hardened pharaoh's heart.
Did God
harden Pharaohs heart?
Not exact matches
a possible interpretation of the
hardening of
pharaoh's heart is based on an old egyptian belief of «the weighing of the hearts».
But you forgot the part where god «
hardens the heart» of the
pharaoh so that he won't listen to Moses.
Not long before, Yahweh did the same thing with the
pharaoh in Egypt: every time the
pharaoh was about to let the Israelites god, Yahweh
hardened his heart to ensure that he would say «no» and keep them a while longer as slaves.
However something that has been bothering me is that God essentially was to stop te plagues when
pharaoh let the Israelites go to worship him but God was the one who
hardened his hart.
Couldn't he have just let
pharaoh make his decision then base the plagues on that instead of continuing to
harden it himself and cause more death?