The specific example used from the Eight Chapters is when God hardened pharaoh's heart. If God was punishing pharaoh for refusing to let the Hebrews go is he not responsible for the evils of pharaoh? It was stated in the bible that God hardened pharaoh's heart and it is later explained by Maimonides to mean that God did so in order to punish ph

This leads to the following point however, in that if God could not influence or create something evil in that sense then would God be capable of creating at all? Herein lies the answer to the question. God could not possibly have created ignorance in its natural state because as the greatest good of all, God would never digress into the evil that is ignorance. This leads us to the conclusion that God did not create any of the natural dolts, and if He did not create any of these natural dolts than did He create anything at all? No.

araoh. This makes no logical sense, in that were God to want to punish would make him seem angry and irascible, and to punish pharaoh would make him punitive. None of this can be the good that God is said to represent. After all God is said to be the greatest good to be sought.

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