question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands? It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it (Isa 45:9, 11–12). Paul repeats the admonition in Romans: But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? (Rom 9:20–21). The Creator fashioned the two sexes differently.