Is God good?

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Originally Posted by Timmy

. But does it justify interfering with Pharaoh's "free will"?

This question was answered earlier by mizpeh

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

It really gets me sometimes that people think God is this all loving and forgiving and everything should just be so, so. Like salvation comes for free. These verses are God's way of saying "if you insist on continously sinning then I will give you over to it" What destroyed the Egyptians is the fact they knew of God and still refused to serve. A father will only bail is son out of jail so many times before he finally just leaves him in to hopefully make him understand. Serving God would mean the Pharoh would have had to give up a tradition of rulership, gold, treasure, power. God in his forsight knew that would never change, it hasn't to this day.

People like to hold on to the scripture of Gods love and mercy, but shun the words of "true and rightous judgements". They often don't like to look at Sodom and Gomora, the plagues of Egypt or the husband and wife that drop dead at the diciples feet for lying. We were created by Him, for Him. Yes you have free will, worship and exalt Him and be rewarded with everlasting love and grace, or turn away from Him and die. Its not rocket science.