can the pot say to the Potter "why did you create me"?

Question

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

No it can not. and as that was an example given to Isiah by God he was saying people have not right to ask this of God, God will do as he wishes to us when we disobey him.

Answer 2

If the pot is capable of speech and independent thought (being used as a metaphor) then the obvious answer is yes.

The problem is not with the question of the created to the creator. The question is only a problem if there is a DRSBA (dirty rotton stinkin' bad attitude) associated with it. "Why did you create me", "Why am I here", and "What am I supposed to do" can all be expressions of curiosity and soul-searching, and therefore not inappropriate.

If we take the metaphor at face value, associating the clay pot with a man, and the Potter with God, then we can easily see a man wondering, "For what purpose do I exist?" God would be the best person to ask such a question. The metaphor can be stretched into the answer mode as well: "You are a water jar/drinking glass/ eating dish/soup kettle/flower pot/vase" etc. All the clay objects a potter creates have a purpose in the potter's house!

Answer 3

Not if the potter is an abusive control freak. However if the potter is an artist, then sure. Can the potter ask the pot "What part of me did you create?"

Answer 4

No, because it doesn't have a mouth, or a mind with which to form cogent questions. But this is another fantastic strawman argument from someone who, clearly, has no comprehension of the absurdity of his own examples.

For instance, the pot is being physically held by the potter. The issue of the potter's non-existence is not in question.

Compare this with the creationist god, who is nowhere to be bloody seen.

Answer 5

The pot was not created by the potter; it was formed, using substance that the potter knows how to mold into shapes. Creation is the act of intimate knowledge...whatever "God" is, creates because It knows what It is doing; It is not just gathering materials that It found lying about. God knows the material, because God is the material...God is the hands that mold the clay, the clay itself; God is the water that holds it together; God is the atoms and molecules that form your keyboard...we ask "Why", because we think we are separate from God, causing us to feel isolated, lost and alone, but this is not the truth.

We remain perfect, whole, complete, part of Whatever God Is...All That Is.

Answer 6

But we the human pots claim that we have appeared without a potter.

They substantiate their this firm belief by saying, that the earthen pot doesn't have intellect, like we human pots have. So by using our this intellect we can prove that there is no creater to us!

May be Charles Darvin created us somehow!

Answer 7

Yes but the Potter will not admit that the pot was created entirely for the satisfaction and gratification of the Potter and will be destroyed and replaced when it fails to please or amuse.

Answer 8

No because pots are inanimate. We are not and the curiosity about creation is what separates us from the animals (as well as the capacity for speach to transmit and recieve the argument)

Answer 9

If pots were capable of sentient thought and speech, I think they'd be entitled to an explanation if they wanted one.

Answer 10

Why not? I think the answer would be: Because I loved your creation, therefore I created you, put a little of myself in you, and gave you being. You are perfect, try to realize that and act accordingly. I don't make mistakes.

Answer 11

No, it can not Romans 9:20
God is the potter and we are the clay!