Jehovah's Witnesses and Easter

I have been sick this week, that is why there has been little action on the blog. But, one thing had my stomach churning that I can't get my mind off of. Last week I came home to find a flyer from our local temple of Satan, otherwise known as the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses. It had a picture of Christ on the front with a title, "The greatest love ever shown." I believe that there is no way that they can defend this with their historical heresy that comes from Arius. Namely, that Jesus Christ was only a man and not God Himself.

This post isn't long and would love for ANY JW to show me as false on this one. The claim is that the greatest love ever shown came from the cross. How do we learn from the Bible that God shows us, or demonstrates, his love for us? It comes in the following verse:

But God demonstrates his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8

This verse only makes sense if Jesus is God. To put it bluntly, this verse makes absolutely no sense if Jesus isn't God. If Jesus isn't God then God demonstrated his own love by murdering an innocent human.

How can God demonstrate his love toward us through killing a finite human? For God to truly demonstrate this love, he needs to lay down his own life, not someone else's. This verse becomes lipservice. This is no demonstration of God's love, but a demonstration of Jesus' love. You can say all you want, that Christ laid down his life willingly (which I agree with), that Jesus did this for us (which I agree with), on his own initiative (which I agree with) but if God and Jesus aren't one, how does this demonstrate God's love?

Doesn't the cross only demonstrate Jesus' love for us, and not God's? If Jesus isn't God it is like God saying, "I love you so much, I am going to kill someone else for you." Thanks. That does nothing to show God's love at all. It actually becomes a brutal slaying of someone that even the executioner, Pilate, couldn't find fault with.

But, here is the beauty. If Jesus is God, and he was part of the decision from all eternity, we don't have a brutal murder by God, but we have the eternal God literally laying down his own life, and not passing the buck to someone else.

If Jesus is God, we can believe this statement. We can see the love that God shows, not merely some man. We can see that the demonstration of this love was an amazing plan from eternity past (Revelation 13:8) that the whole of the Trinity planned and brought to determination (Acts 4:27,28).

If anyone can show me how God demonstrates his own love for us, by killing a mere human, I would like to know how.

I am up for any discussion on this one, as I believe the argument will fall well short of the biblical testimony. May our Lord Jesus Christ's name not be thrown in the mud by these that proclaim false testimony from the den of thieves.

Soli Deo Gloria.