The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life - GOD'S WATY OF SETTLING THE ISSUES

 Note, please, that Satan did not raise any questions as to God's strength. He did not challenge Jehovah to use his might to destroy him as an opposer. But he did challenge God's right to rule and the rightness of his way of ruling. Also, he questioned the loyalty of God's creatures. So it was a moral issue that had to be settled. 

Satan's false charges against God may be illustrated, to a certain extent, in a human way. Suppose a man having a large family is accused by one of his neighbors of many false things about the way he manages his household. Suppose the neighbor also says that the family members have no real love for their father but only stay with him to obtain the food and material things he gives them.  How might the father of the family answer such charges? If he simply used violence against the accuser, this would answer the charges. Instead, it might suggest that they were true. But what a fine answer it would be if he permitted his own family to be his witnesses to show that their father was indeed a just and loving family head and that they were happy to live with him because they loved him! Thus he would completely vindicated. - PROVERBS 27:11; ISAIAH 43:10.

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