Nay but, O man, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
As long as you are just a creature, says Paul, like this lump of clay, and you have not been led to spiritual things, so that as a spiritual man you might judge all things and be judged by no one, it is right for you to hold back from this kind of inquiry and not to answer back to God. For everyone who wants to know God’s plan ought first to be received into his friendship, and this is only possible for spiritual people who already bear the image of the heavenly.
