>>1392695>>1392698>>1392701Pharaoh hardened his own heart to God ten times, so God simply allowed him to keep that hardened heart. Pharaoh freely chose that, so God allowed it and set it in place.
>>1392704>>1392720God gave Adam and Eve a direct command, not to eat the fruit and they disobeyed. Now Eve was lied to by Satan, so she isn't blamed for the Fall. Rather the blame is put on Adam for listening to Eve and eating the fruit knowing full well he was told not to. It is true that God could have placed the tree where they couldn't get to it, but God doesn't want robots. He wants people to choose Him of their own free will. So he gave them the ability to not choose Him.
>>1392705Do you mean the words of the prophets being infallible or their actions? Because if the latter, the prophets made a ton of mistakes, and they are often highlighted. The purpose for this being for the reader to avoid the mistakes they made in their walk of faith. Need examples of what you are going for here, your view of God in the Old Testament, that is.
>>1392711An all knowing God would know the things that people would freely choose. That does not invalidate free will.
>>1392714God never commanded anybody to rape, nor condoned or permitted it. God never commanded slavery, but he did permit it. However, slavery then was not as we knew it here in America, it was more like what we would call indentured servitude. God did command the Israelites to kill and fight other groups, and He did have a good reason for doing so. The groups around the Israelites were seeking to destroy Israel, and were usually just straight evil. Child sacrifices, genocides, mass torture, etc. The time that the Israelites didn't entirely kill a people that the Lord had told them to, the Amalekites, a descendant of that people, a man named Haman, tried to kill all the Jewish people.
