Why couldn't Pharaoh blame God for making him the way he was?
Pharaoh could not blame God because he hardened his own heart by his own volition. When God placed him on the spot, Pharaoh bristled and refused to let Israel go. God's hardening did not remove Pharaoh's choice; he personally rejected God's offer to take Israel out of Egypt, so he had no right to accuse his Maker.
Les explains that Pharaoh's situation must be understood through Paul's argument in Romans 9. God's hardening of Pharaoh did not mean Pharaoh had no choice. When God put him on the spot, Pharaoh bristled up and said, "I'll not let those people go." In that way, Pharaoh hardened his own heart. Paul then raises the objection, "Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he find fault? For who hath resisted his will?" and answers that God is sovereign: "Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?" Les says Pharaoh could not turn around in the face of God and ask, "Why did you make me what I am?" He had no right to say that, because he of his own volition rejected God's offer of taking Israel out of Egypt.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Why could Pharaoh not turn to God and ask, why did you make me this way?
Pharaoh could not turn to God and ask why he was made that way because he had no right to reply against God. Of his own volition he rejected God's offer to take Israel out of Egypt. When God put him on the spot, Pharaoh bristled and refused to let the people go, hardening his own heart.
Did Pharaoh have a right to ask God why he made him that way?
No, Pharaoh had no right to ask God why He made him that way. He of his own volition rejected God's offer of taking Israel out of Egypt. When God put him on the spot, Pharaoh bristled up and refused to let the people go, hardening his own heart.