Greek verb 4456 poroo was translated into English “hardened” in Mark 6:52 Mark 8:17 John 12:40 and into “blinded” in Romans 11:5 and 1Corinthians 3:14 in the context of Mark 6:45-9:13. God best defined both Greek feminine noun 4457 porosis and Greek verb 4456 poroo in the context of the so called miracle of feeding nine thousand with four fish and twelve loaves which deceived more than eight billion human beings who were removed from God’s process during this earth age who sought what God would do for them rather than what they could do for God. I am going to refer you to Mark 8:11-21 but I’m only going to copy and paste Mark 8:17-21 and Matthew 16:9-12 “And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?” “Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?” “When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.” “And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.” “And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand”? “Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up”? “Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up”? “How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees”? “Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees”. Who were the primary denominations of the Jewish religion when Jesus walked the earth. When I was about six years old sitting in a Sunday school class listening carefully to a teacher teaching “the miracle of the fishes and loaves” when the teacher was done I raised my hand, and when acknowledged, I said the math didn’t work and I thought that Jesus was teaching us that the more people we allowed between God and ourselves the more fragmented would God’s Word become. The teacher jokingly said “so you think Jesus is teaching you not to allow me between you and God”. I replied “exactly” in the positive sense of, you do get it, but was received quite negatively. I came to understand that “seven thousand” “elect” “election” came to understand what Jesus was teaching while more than 8 billion other people did not. Millions of human beings died before God came to earth in the embodiment of Jesus Christ to die on a Roman cross “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him” which is the only logical process to fulfill God’s will “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour” “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth”.