Renniks: All this tells me is that God allowed this Pharaoh to become the ruler for God's reasons.All this tells me is that God allowed this Pharaoh to become the ruler for God's reasons. You need to study the difference between allowing and causing or ordaining.
As I said in my post #650, "God was the one who made him Pharaoh, and at the exact time He is about to bring about His plan and purpose in him."
You seem to strip God of having a determined will as the Sovereign Creator, just because of man's "free will".
Don't forget who God is and who man is. That God has made from one blood every nation of "free willed" men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings (Acts 17:26). Also, scriptures tells us that the authorities that exist are appointed by God (Rom. 13:1).
Renniks: You need to study the difference between allowing and causing or ordaining.
I had sir, even for quite a time now. You ought to do likewise. But to study is one thing, and to acknowledge is another thing. As in this case, you don't apparently acknowledge what God had purposely made of Pharaoh, that He did not simply allowed him to become king of Egypt. That it was not random and coincidental that this Pharaoh exist, had become the person he is, became a king of Egypt who was cruel to the Israelites. God did not wait for this kind of person to come along who is perfect for Him to use for His purpose.
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