After all. Not the quality of the clay, but the will of the man who makes the pots, decides what use will be made of each part of the lump. The Expositor's Greek Testament says: "True, the objector might say, but irrelevant. For man is not clay, and the relation of God to man is not that of the potter to dead matter. To say that it is, is just to concede the objector's point - the moral significance is taken out of life, and God has no room any longer to pronounce moral judgments, or to speak of man in terms of praise or blame." [Christians have argued for centuries over the exact relation between God's SOVEREIGN WILL and man's FREE WILL.]

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Old Testament