14What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
15For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."[
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16It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."[
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18Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
It is astonishing how christians try and use these verses to justify a tilting of the scales towards a few being saved (read Romans 11 verse 32 it pulls the rug clean from under this way of thinking taught by tradition)
Also if is taken at face value rather than in context , these verses prove man does not have the free will he thinks he as .
In otherwords man's coming into salvation as absolutely nothing to do with him,so if it as nothing to do with man , who are we to say to the potter "why have you bound all men over to disobedience so that you may have mercy on them all ?"
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