Matthew Johnson  wrote:

[...]
>
> >It is all of grace, not of merit.
>
> Who said anything about 'merit' here? I most certainly did not.

Yet you turn around and bring it in just a moment.

> This is just another of your favorite red herrings. Even foreknowledge of
> Paul's great deeds does not give him 'merit' in God's eyes. It does,
> however, give God reason to show even greater mercy to Paul, which is
> exactly what He did.

So the reason God shows even greater mercy to Paul is because of His
foreknowledge of Paul's merit?

>
> How could you MISS this, Loren? Didn't you notice that Paul was including
> himself when he mentioned "vessels of mercy" in Rom 9:23?

When God says, "it does not depend on human will or effort" (Rom 9:16),
to what does the "it" refer?

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