Under gods law do we have a choice in accepting his word?

“The Way of Life” or “The Way of Death”—Which?

“And to this people you will say, ‘This is what Jehovah has said: “Here I am putting before you people the way of life and the way of death.”’”—Jer. 21:8.

HAS it really got as serious as all that? Are we all up against it? Is the whole world now faced with a choice between “the way of life and the way of death”? Can this really be so? Is not death the normal thing? If so, why is the case of humanity different now from what it was before? For the past thousands of years men, women, children and babies have not escaped dying. They had no other choice. Then why today should it be said that now, finally, we face the choice of “the way of life” or “the way of death”? What chance do we have of escaping the longtime foe DEATH?

2 Well, this is not the first time that a whole world of people faced death, a sudden death, all together. Historians point back to an earlier occasion of this kind. One historian says: “There were heavens from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; and by those means the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.”—2 Pet. 3:5, 6.

3 That historian, the Christian apostle Peter, was writing about the global deluge of Noah’s day. Were the way of life and the way of death set before the world of that time? Most certainly, Yes! It was a case of either a person’s unbelievingly staying outside the ark that Noah and his family had built and not living through the deluge or a person’s getting inside the ark with Noah and his family and thus escaping a violent death with the ungodly world.

4 Earlier in the same letter the apostle Peter wrote: “And he [God] did not hold back from punishing an ancient world, but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness, safe with seven others when he brought a deluge upon a world of ungodly people.”—2 Pet. 2:5.

Yes we have a choice. But to deny Him is death with Satan and the Lake of fire forever and ever. That's your choice.