Is It Fair That God Hardens Hearts?

God can accomplish his decree of reprobation by hardening hearts and blinding eyes through wicked people.

This hardness, or deadness, or futility, which we all have from Adam on, is basic. All other texts in the Bible of God's hardening have this as ...

Therefore I think it's best to say, no, the true believer is never the object of God's hardening. 6. But has my heart been hardened? Often this ...

So when God hardened Pharaoh's heart, it was because he had chosen his disobedient path and deserved the consequences of it.

In most of the cases throughout Scripture, it's clear that God hardens hearts only after a long track record of disobedience.

As a result, God HARDENED their hearts. He simply confirmed their own choices. After a lifetime of resisting God, they were so set in their ways ...

Therefore, God's hardening Pharaoh's heart was not unjust, and His bringing additional plagues against Egypt was not unjust. The plagues, as ...

Some argue that passages which speak of God hardening human hearts (Jos 11:19-20; Ex 7:3; 10:1; Rom 9:18) demonstrate that God controls ...

God does harden the persons heart. He also closes up the heavens above them, ignores their pleas and prayers, as well as turning the person over ...

In the first five plagues that God sends on Egypt, the hardening of Pharaoh's heart happens by his own will, or is again ambiguous, just as we ...

In terms of how God softens hearts, He once again does it in a way that doesn't violate free will. He doesn't override our free will and force ...

As a verb, to harden one's heart means: To fortify, to strengthen, to double-down on a position or attitude. To more firmly resolve to stay the ...

Looking at it in black and white, without context, you may think God is engineering this evil in Pharaoh by hardening his heart; instead, he's ...

Hence this hardening can be understood as voluntary on the part of the one hardened, for God hardens in such a way that He uses the person's own ...

The very reason God closed the eyes and ears of the Pharisees to the deeper truth he was delivering to the world was to prevent them from ...

Does God harden hearts? Bill Johnson responds to a question regarding Exodus 9: 12, where the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.

Some say it is not fair that God hardened his heart. Well God ... It is a biblical axiom that revelation devoid of illuminating grace hardens ...

In the well-known story of Israel's exodus from Egypt, God is described as hardening Pharaoh's heart so that Pharaoh disobeys God.

Sin is not the consequence of a hardened heart, it is the natural disposition of mankind after the fall. The hardening induced by God is related ...

Anyone's heart can harden, even faithful Christians'. In fact, in Mark 8:17–19 we see Jesus' own disciples suffering from this malady. The ...