[RnMomof7]

Well, in a sense, it was the will of God, because he did it. In another sense, it appears as though it was the will of Pharoah. In other words, Pharoah did not do what he did not want to do.

My 2 cents on this

All men are totally depraved. the only thing that keeps us all from being Jeffery Dalhmer and eating each other is gods restraing Grace . That grace keeps order in this fallen world and allows the elect to live with some peace and effective governmental order. All men benefit from Gods general grace

Scripture is clear that Pharoah kept hardening his own heart and God allowed it..then a point was reached where God had to give him over completely to his depravity so that His plan could be accomplished

God did not need to do an affirmative act to harden the heart of the Pharoah..He simply needed to remove what restraining grace he had previously give him

[zadok]

"All men are totally depraved. the only thing that keeps us all from being Jeffery Dalhmer and eating each other is gods restraing Grace "

Amen!

Man has no goodness within himself. Any goodness displayed by a man is the grace of God working within that man, whether that man is a believer or not.

Are any of us better than Jeffery Dahmer or Stalin?

Nope.

As humans, we have no righteousness of our own. If God did not restrain sin in our hearts, we would all do the same or worse than Jeffery did.

I have heard that Jeffery Dahmer became a believer while in prison.

Did Jeffery, as a believer, go to heaven when he was killed?

We all better hope so, because on the holiness spectrum, we are all a lot closer to Jeffery Dahmer than we are to Jesus Christ.