With the announcement that the biblical account of Noah will soon undergo adaptation as a major motion picture.The anti-theists have predictably seized the opportunity to highlight the erstwhile moral failings of Jehovah God.After all if some national government chose to deal with its population in the same way that Jehovah is reported to have dealt with earth's population in the book of Genesis would they not be justly denounced by civilised people everywhere?Why do Jehovah's servants insists on advocating this double standard?Well,the short answer is that Jehovah's servants acknowledge God's right to terminate the life that he created sustains and has the power to restore because doing so while regarding as immoral the destruction by human despots of the lives that they neither created nor sustain nor have the means to restore is not a double standard.
It is a commonly accepted principle of common law that what one produces and maintains is his legal property owing to his creation and maintenance of same.And that the proprietor of any item has the legal right to set terms and conditions for its use.Thus one is billed for the electricity that one uses by the utility company.As the producer they are the lawful owner of the supply and are entitled to stipulate a fee for access to this supply.No one would regard the termination of the service on account of repeated failure to pay the stipulated fee as a moral failing on the part of the company,especially if it were clear that the owners of the utility company had exhibited extraordinary patience with the client in question.
Similarly our lives are a utility produced and supplied by Jehovah God His stipulated demands for the continuance of this service are in no way unreasonable.But for those who imagine that they can indefinitely continue as deadbeats in this regard the scriptures serve fair warning that the creator and sustainer of life has both the right and the might to terminate the supply.
