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Sometimes a hardening of a heart leads fast to their own destruction, seeing that they have rejected the truth and never will accept it. If God knows that they will not accept the truth ever, then hardening their heart will serve in a way to protect God's people in some way. We see this happen in Exodus. Pharaoh hardened his own heart first, and then God hardened his heart giving him more of what he wanted. This action helped to lead the Israelites to go free. Pharaoh may not have done what he did if it was not for an increased hardening of his heart that he set into motion by his own hard heart to begin with. God knew Pharaoh better than he knew himself. Pharaoh ended up destroying himself by his refusal to accept the Lord's terms of setting His people free. Pharaoh did not have to harden his heart in the beginning before God hardened his heart based on him hardening his own heart. Nowhere will you find in Scripture whereby God hardens a person's heart without their initial refusal to hear the things of GOD and or without their hardening their own heart. God does not randomly zap people to have a hard heart based on nothing that they did prior.
In fact, what is the point of hardening a person's heart further if they are incapable of hearing the truth, and or understanding it? It makes no sense to harden dead men's hearts if they are already hard hearted and incapable of understanding truth.
So you agree God indeed controls human will by hardening it?
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