CHARGER

how can God love a murderer ?

Simple. Paul.

Acts 8:3 But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Does this not remind you of the dragging out of the Jews from house to house by the Nazi's ? Yet this man wrote most of the New Testament.

CJ. I was not referring to Osama's arabic you dill, it was Omar Brooks's (Now called Abu Izzadeen, now called 'HELP... THEY ARRESTED ME AND ITS A POLICE STATE HERE IN UK AND I CAN'T RANT ANY MORE')

By the way, if you didn't post here, life would be much less meaningful :)

RObert - "count me out" - unfortunately that will be the beginning of your torment in hell. Revelations? That's the last chapter, the things to come. Go back a few pages mate and re-read that part about how you save yourself while you still can.

It is humorous to read some of the above comments - how ignorant people would like to shape God to their “superior” intellect, when most of them (non-believers) will tell you without a moment of hesitation that they come from an Ape…

In his last hour on the cross Jesus was surrounded by two criminals. One of them believed in Him and was saved. The other challenged His Divinity and missed the opportunity.

So it will be for all you clever people who feel superior to their Creator.

Of course God loves Osama and ALL Muslims even if they have been deluded by their leaders and believe otherwise.

God so loved the WORLD that He came to die a criminal’s death for each one of us. God paid the penalty on our behalf.

We don’t owe Him anything. It’s been Paid in Full. No need for rituals or religiosities. No one can impress God to enter heaven.

It’s God's way (Jesus) or nothing.

God also so loved the world that He gave us all the freedom to choose our ultimate destiny.

Accept Jesus and you are saved NOW and for Eternity –

Don’t and you will burn in hell with RObert.

Really Simple.

Well said wyliewilde.
It's a sign of the times when a church starts using shock advertising to get their message across, even if it might be well meaning.
I guess its success depends on what its purpose is.
If they're trying to get more people to go to church then i doubt it will do much, but if they're trying to spark controversy and discussions about Jesus then looks like they've achieved that, at least here on this forum anyway :)

Coach: "how ignorant people would like to shape God to their “superior” intellect,"

and "Don’t and you will burn in hell with RObert"

Coach. Seems to me you're prejudging what god thinks. Ouch.

If your god burns people in hell for something as trivial as doubting him/her/it/they/OS v1.25 then I want nothing to do with him/her/it/they/OS v1.25

Evidently however, in your pride you've presumed to guess your god's motives. I suppose you'll be joining the rest of the burning brigade in your god's bigger badder version of sitting in the corner.

Actually, I think Srekwah's comments take the cake. Just goes to shows the wild ones can come from both sides of the fence.

What an amusing thread. It's a good thing any remotely sensible god wouldn't care about this kind of trivial guff.

As a former Christian I am very interested in threads such as this one.

Even though I am now agnostic (bordering on atheist), I still feel that the belief that God loves EVERYONE is one of the great strengths of the Christian religion.

The posters of "Jesus loves Osama" would not have turned me away from the church, nor do I find them offensive now. They embody a concept which, sadly, even many professed Christians don't seem to understand.

To Strewkah and Wyliewild and Rhys.. a warm welcome to OLO.. I've not seen you before, so, rightly or wrongly I'll assume u are new.

Wylie has a point about the proclamation, but don't let that stop some creative ways of communicating Gods truth. We may not all agree with the sign, but as one of you observed "if it was to get people talking about Jesus...it worked" and it sure did.
I find it wonderful that we are simply discussing the issue of Christ and Salvation and the Gospel.

Paul did this in the market place and they synagogue and from house to house. Perhaps we can add 'from forum to forum'.

I have some creative ways of getting truth about Christ across also, but have not yet implemented many. One is to have a large banner in Federation Square saying 'One Nation, One Race, One Culture'.. but the people underneath it will contradict the sign, because they will be clearly of many different races. The handout will quote Galatians 3:36 "In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, Slave nor Free, but we all one in Him"...something along those lines.

The first lesson of communication is GET THEIR ATTENTION... the rest is easy :) But if you don't have it.. you can spend the next 100 hours speaking wonderful, intelligent and eloquent truths which no one is listening to.

So, I give Reverend Rod 100% for 'Getting Attention', maybe only a pass for content.

For those who feel unhappy with Coaches rather 'blunt'mentioning of hell etc.. We are all mature and know enough about Christianity to understand this aspect of the faith.
Coach will not determine your destiny. You will. He is warning the man in the stalled car on the rail crossing of the freight train hurtling along at him.... anyone who chooses to stay in the car can do so at their own risk, but in terms of Coaches understanding of the Gospel, he is speaking truth. I would not maybe approach it in the same way, but truth it is.