02 February 2010

Can God Justify His Own Actions? Part 1

If God made someone do something, then punish them for it, surely that cannot be Just? It's one of my reasons why I can't make sense of Islam. From what I understand, (and I recognise that my knowledge on the matter is very small) Muslims believe in a God who judges people, just like the Judeo-Christian God. The only difference, really is that they also believe that God controls all their actions, so much to say that, they are essentially puppets with no free will. So how can God judge someone of their actions when surely, he's the one who should be judged. That's why I can't really get my head around Islam, but, I've seen something not as extreme as that, but still troublesome to my heads, while reading the story of Moses and the Pharoah in the Bible last night.

It is to do with the Pharoah's actions. I've always assumed that the Pharoah was a little bit high on the power that was given to him, and he had an issue with the authority of God, and he attempted to do his own thing, which was to make God's people slaves, and stop them from freely worshipping Yahweh. If that was the case, I'd say that it does make sense, and that it was Just to teach Pharoah a lesson. But reading something in thre, threw in a spanner in the works for me. It says, on numerous occasions, that it was God who made Pharoah's heart stubborn. I know he didn't do that straight away, but it was essentially stopping the Jews from escaping.

I think I'll make this a part 1 of 2, I'm going to read the story from the start, because this is troubling me. I want to see where about's it starts saying God made Pharoahs heart stubborn. I think on the behalf of all the First Borns in Egypt, if it was God controlling pharoah, that's not good.

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