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Osama Bin Laden... What is the Christian response to this?

What is my moral response to the death of Osama

  • I hope he burns in Hell

    Votes: 31 26.5%

  • I'm just glad he is dead. Let God Decide

    Votes: 41 35.0%

  • Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner

    Votes: 13 11.1%

  • Conflicted

    Votes: 17 14.5%

  • Other/Poll fail

    Votes: 15 12.8%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
demondeacfreak said:
Part of believing that in the resurrection and redemption by Christ and believing in an all-powerful God is that no man is so far gone that he is beyond the grace of God to save. I think many of us will be very surprised who we find in heaven, and who we do not find.
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Anyone can be saved but not if you havent admitted your sins. You don't just automatically get forgiven after death. I doubt Bin Laden was asking for forgiveness during our raid into his house.
 
I agree with you. My point is just because someone looks rotten on the balance of his life doesn't mean he is ultimately unredeemed. Only God knows in the end.
 
Wakegrad said:
Anyone can be saved but not if you havent admitted your sins. You don't just automatically get forgiven after death. I doubt Bin Laden was asking for forgiveness during our raid into his house.
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Condemn the wicked!
 
I'm sure OBL believed in and felt justified by his cause. Unfortunately, his cause was wrong and he dies.
 
tintinisahottie said:
God killed people.

Even in Jesus's time. What about the guy who was struck dead immediately when he lied about how much he gave?
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This is what happens when you read a line or two and not the whole story.

God certainly killed people in the OT. Then Noah came along and he made a new covenant. (Then Noah got drunk, ran around naked, and passed out. He was a bawse.) Jesus made an even newer covenant. And if you are Muslim, Mohammad came along and made an even newer one. Whose next? Joseph Smith? LOL.

Ananias (I'm guessing this is the story referred to) just fell down dead after lying to Peter in Acts. It doesn't say God or Peter or anyone killed him. Sounds like to me he was confronted with his sin and couldn't take it. He wouldn't be the first or the last.
 
Many Jews (even those who have been to MS and NJ) don't believe in hell.
 
Not pointing fingers at anyone here, but Christianity in America is extremely misunderstood and most folks are ignorant (not used in a pejorative sense) of even basic theology or Biblical scholarship. And so my point is that Christianity, properly understood (not of course not fully), is a faith not about life after death, but life before death. The point of life is not a multiple choice test where you do things to either end up in column A or column B when you die. Jesus proclaimed that Kingdom of God of is among us, living in and building that Kingdom is the name of the game, not trying to tip the scales into deciding how you spend eternity. Thinking that Christianity (or any faith system) is just a test to see if we're good or bad is based on very shallow (and scary) theology.
 
WhatUTalkinBout Willis said:
Any follower of the Jewish/Christian OT God knows the ten commandments, and in there lies "Thou Shalt Not Kill." There's no ambiguity.

Jesus was also decidedly anti-violence, even in the face of violence. You only have to read the first 4 books of the NT to understand this fully.

So anyone who believes in the Bible and especially Jesus' teachings knows the killing of OBL (or anyone) is wrong.

But we've spent thousands of years justifying our actions when they contradict what we know is right. What's one more?

I'd like to add that I'm totally cool with the execution "for the greater good" I'm just saying Jesus would be against it.
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Respectfully I must insist that this is a simplistic understanding of both the Law and the Gospels.

It was in the Pentateuch that God also demanded capitol punishment for murderers: Genesis 9:6 6 "Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.

And Christ directed His people to buy a sword:
Luke 22:36 36 Then He said to them, "But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; and he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.

In Romans 13 Paul states that God Himself gave civil government the power of the sword...meaning the authority to execute capitol punishment.

Our government possesses the legitimate authority to punish those who invade our sovereign territory and kill our citizens.
 
By the way, the reality which makes mercy so remarkable is Divine Justice.

Justice was executed on Christ so that mercy might be extended freely to those who believe on Him.
 
‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
avalon said:
A friend posted one of my favorite MLK quotes on Facebook today:

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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in thread Haas!
 
Damn, I even scanned the thread first. Should have read closer. Great quote, summarizes my feelings.
 
crap, i seriously just came to drop the MLK quote.

‎"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr
 
TWDeac said:
Love the dissenting opinions between the religious in this thread...
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We're all over the place in this thread, that's for sure.


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I'll rejoice in the death of OBL. That dude stopped being "human" over two decades ago. I'm fucking thrilled the cocksucker is dead. Fuck him.
 
Why the fuck would I mourn a guy who purposefully killed thousands of completely innocent people? my people. That's a nice sounding quote and all but seriously, f osama
 
tintinisahottie said:
Why the fuck would I mourn a guy who purposefully killed thousands of completely innocent people? my people. That's a nice sounding quote and all but seriously, f osama
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Nowhere does the quote suggest to mourn the loss, but rather to simply not rejoice, as violence only begets more violence.
 
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