Christians and the Watchtower Society tell us all the time that among the other excellent qualities attributed to God he is also supposed to very impartial. In a Watchtower magazine from 2003 in an article titled ?Imitate Jehovah, Our Impartial God? the magazine set out to give its readers examples of Gods impartiality. Let us take a look at it:
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Imitate Jehovah, Our Impartial God
?There is no partiality with God.??ROMANS 2:11.
CAMPED on the Plains of Moab in 1473 B.C.E., Israel listened attentively to Moses. A challenge lay ahead, beyond the Jordan River. Moses declared Jehovah?s purpose to have Israel defeat the seven mighty Canaanite nations in the Promised Land. How reassuring were Moses? words: ?Jehovah your God will certainly abandon them to you, and you must defeat them?! Israel was to conclude no covenant with them, and they merited no favor.?Deuteronomy 1:1; 7:1, 2.
2 Yet, Jehovah spared one family from the first city that Israel attacked. People from four other towns also received God?s protection. Why was this? What do the remarkable events associated with the survival of these Canaanites teach us about Jehovah? And how can we imitate him??
Let?s see if we got this. Jehovah wanted Israel to exterminate seven different Canaanite nations, which lived in the ?Promised Land?. In other words he wanted the Israelites to carry out what we today call ethnic cleansing and genocide of an entire population living in the area. Am I crazy or does this really sound like being impartial to you? Are they completely insane in Brooklyn?
It looks like this fantastic impartiality on Gods behalf was that he apparently saw fit to make exceptions from the wholesale slaughter.
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4 When Israel first penetrated Canaan after crossing the Jordan, they set up camp at Gilgal. (Joshua 4:9-19) Not far away stood the walled city of Jericho. What Canaanite Rahab heard of Jehovah?s actions stirred her to act in faith. As a result, when Jehovah brought destruction on Jericho, he spared her and those in her house.?Joshua 2:1-13; 6:17, 18; James 2:25.
5 Next, Israel ascended from the lowlands near the river into the central hills of the region. Following Jehovah?s direction, Joshua employed ambush tactics against the city of Ai. (Joshua, chapter 8) News of the ensuing rout prompted many of Canaan?s kings to assemble for war. (Joshua 9:1, 2) The inhabitants of the nearby Hivite city of Gibeon reacted differently. ?They, even of their own accord,? relates Joshua 9:4, ?acted with shrewdness.? Like Rahab, they had heard of Jehovah?s deliverance of his people at the Exodus and at the defeat of Sihon and Og. (Joshua 9:6-10) The Gibeonites realized the futility of resistance. So on behalf of Gibeon and three nearby cities?Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim?they sent to Joshua at Gilgal a delegation disguised as though from a distant land. The stratagem succeeded. Joshua concluded a covenant with them that ensured their survival. Three days later Joshua and the Israelites learned that they had been tricked. Nevertheless, they had sworn by Jehovah to the covenant and thus held to it. (Joshua 9:16-19) Did Jehovah approve?
So the leading cause for Gods alleged impartiality was sucking up to Jehovah and become a traitor, or use lies, deceit and tricks to survive the Israeli killing machine.
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Dealings With Abraham and Israel
8 The disciple James drew attention to God?s undeserved kindness in His dealings with Abraham and his offspring. It was Abraham?s faith, not his ethnic origin, that made him ?Jehovah?s friend.? (James 2:23) Abraham?s faith and love for Jehovah brought blessings to his descendants. (2 Chronicles 20:7) Jehovah promised Abraham: ?I shall surely bless you and I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore.? But note the promise in the next verse: ?By means of your seed all nations of the earth will certainly bless themselves.??Genesis 22:17, 18; Romans 4:1-8.
How can it be impartial for anyone to pick out one unscrupulous bloodthirsty tribe or group of people and use them as a tool to murder and slaughter other peoples to cleanse a strip of land? And the only requirement for being used as tool for extermination is if they are willing to suck up to this homicidal maniac God. What the hell has this insane story got to do with impartiality?
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Dealings With Abraham and Israel
9 Far from showing partiality, Jehovah demonstrated by his dealings with Israel what he can do for those who obey him.
So the only criteria for this extremely perverted form of ?impartiality? is who ?obey? God. If you don?t subscribe to one particular form of superstition, you are in for extermination! How can anyone read complete insane drivel like this and think it has anything even remotely to do with being impartial?
Norm