We are not denying God his sovereign rights over HIS creations and claiming He is helpless to stop His creaton from sinning. Instead, we fully accept His rights and omnipotence, and love Him more because, even with His abilities, He chooses not to exercise them so that we may come to Him out of Love.
As for God's choices to spare Noah and harden Pharaoh's heart, those are good questions. It is obvious He did, if the Bible stories are to be taken as literal truth. Those incidents are my biggest obstacle to continuing in my previous convictions. If He truly punished those to whom He gave no choice, I never knew, thus never loved Him.
I am sure He is reassured by that ..it is very nice of all of you to grant Him that power :>))
As for God's choices to spare Noah and harden Pharaoh's heart, those are good questions. It is obvious He did, if the Bible stories are to be taken as literal truth. Those incidents are my biggest obstacle to continuing in my previous convictions. If He truly punished those to whom He gave no choice, I never knew, thus never loved Him.
Actually we loved Him because He loved us first( 1 John 4:19).Can you only love God if He lets you be God? Can you not love Him because He loved you?