Bible Spiderman: Man Seen Painting Over Billboard

Many Christians likely would be willing to forgive a Los Angeles man for his act of vandalism. A viral video on social media shows an unidentified individual standing on a billboard platform painting over the word “not” on a large black-and-white sign declaring “Jesus is not God,” transforming the billboard from communicating a heretical to an evangelical message.

A little-known group, World’s Last Chance, is responsible for the signage. They are purchasing billboard space in several states including Georgia and California. They contend they are part of “four billboard themes that dare to shatter the chains of long-held misconceptions” about the deity of Jesus and other central tenets of Christian theology. But that’s not all.  The group promotes Arianism, disavows the trinity and believes the earth is flat.

The group purportedly has said that these messages are “not mere slogans” but should serve as a “clarion call to awaken hearts and minds to the radiant truth of scripture.” The man’s actions, although likely a legal violation, have garnered positive attention from Christians. Although his vandalism hasn’t been condoned, the intent to eliminate heretical messages has been welcomed by many.

According to Beliefnet, which reported on the incident, Ray Comfort, founder of Living Waters, condemned World’s Last Chance as “a strange sect” claiming “to believe the scriptures yet openly denying the deity of Christ — a contradiction the Bible doesn’t permit.” He posted a video about the sect.

The Bible “plainly teaches that God was manifest in the flesh and that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God and the express image of his person,” he said. “Jesus himself said, ‘I came down from heaven and before Abraham was, I am,’ a direct claim to deity that is here understood clearly. He is not merely a moral teacher or a created being but the creator himself, for all things were made through him and without him, nothing was made that was made.”

–Alan Goforth