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Hey VW
I know you're such a fan of R.C. Sproul, you'll be interested in this.
Today on his radio program he was talking about God hardening Pharaoh's heart. He said that, no God didn't enter into Pharaoh's mind or violate his free will. God's hardening of his heart was accomplished by God removing His restraining hand from Pharaoh after his repeated rebellion. In short, as I understood it, he was saying God cannot be faulted for the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. Isn't this along the lines of what you teach?
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Originally Posted by
Bookman
I know you're such a fan of R.C. Sproul, you'll be interested in this.
Today on his radio program he was talking about God hardening Pharaoh's heart. He said that, no God didn't enter into Pharaoh's mind or violate his free will. God's hardening of his heart was accomplished by God removing His restraining hand from Pharaoh after his repeated rebellion. In short, as I understood it, he was saying God cannot be faulted for the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. Isn't this along the lines of what you teach?
Interesting Bookman
It is exactly along the lines that I teach and has been as early as the early Jewish commentators taught and also at least from the time of the church fathers. I think I lay some of this out in my book "God is Said to do that Which He Only Permits". Can be downloaded as a free.pdf here:
http://www.vindicatinggod.org/permits.html
Now that I am finished with my flagrant self-promotion, I would still have to ask you a question that piques my curiosity. As a moderate Calvinist yourself, don't you think that his position on this is inconsistent with his Calvinist ideology?
Also, you wouldn't happen to have the title and date of that program, would you?
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Sproul actually wrote about this in his books. Note the second paragraph in the book in the link below:
https://books.google.com/books?id=_B...strain&f=false
And the third and fourth paragraphs here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=rA...strain&f=false
I would really love to cheer for the late Dr. Sproul but then you find another book where he, like most Calvinists, completely contradicts himself:
https://books.google.com/books?id=kk...strain&f=false
I am afraid that I cannot give Sproul any props. I respect a man more when he is consistent in his beliefs, even if I may disagree with him. I have a harder time with a person who says one thing and then the complete opposite at another time.
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Originally Posted by
victoryword
I'd like to be an eavesdropping waiter if you had had dinner with Sproul. Doctrine aside, he was a very genial man.
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Originally Posted by
Bookman
I'd like to be an eavesdropping waiter if you had had dinner with Sproul. Doctrine aside, he was a very genial man.
I have found that many Calvinists are a lot nicer than their understanding of God's character
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