Another reason I don

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Please note Exodus 4:21
The Lord said to Moses, "When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you power to do. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go."

Also please note Romans 9:14-18
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, " I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and compassion on whom I have compassion."
It does not, therefore, depend on mans desire or effort, but Gods mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and hardens whom he wants to harden.

Any thoughts?

Its a riddle wrapped in an enigma in an unknowable little package.
How on one hand we have totally freewill yet God sets up everything for His own good. How God is omnipresent, all knowing, and all powerful, yet surprisingly aloof. Instead of where's Waldo, it's become where's God? Is he in your heart? Is he in the trees? Is he in outer space? Is he nowhere? Is he everywhere? Is he real? Is he a figment of our collective imaginations? This is why I am agnostic. Who really knows. Maybe he exists, Maybe he doesn't. If you know in your heart he does, well then he does. If you haven't yet been convinced, well then he doesn't.