Pardon me for interjecting in your correspondence with Joe, Criley.<br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]Since you mention the passage, you might want to go read the account of God hardening Pharoah's heart. God didn't harden his heart until Pharoah denied God's very existence</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]"Yahweh said to Moses, 'When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.'"<br>Exodus 4:21</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br><blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]"For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, 'For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.' So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires."<br>Romans 9:17-18</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>Chris
