say to me then, ‘Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?’ ” (vv. 18–19) Why would God find fault in us if He didn’t choose us? Paul’s answer is, “On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? [You have no right to question God.] The thing molded will not say to the molder, ‘Why did you make me like this,’ will it?” (v. 20) Does the clay jump up and ask the potter why it looks the way it does? Not at all. Some believe that is terribly cold and calculating. But that
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