A former Cedarville University finance professor whose writings promote a Christian ethic of marriage and sexuality was arrested Tuesday on eight sex-related felony charges involving one or more minors.
The indictment, filed March 27 in Ohio’s Greene County Common Pleas Court, charges John Kent Tarwater with two counts of rape, three counts of sexual battery and three counts of gross sexual imposition.
He was booked into Greene County jail in southwest Ohio, where he remained in custody as of Wednesday morning. No defense counsel was listed in public court records, and no hearing or trial dates were disclosed.
Interesting.
I only know the Protestant flavor of Christianity, and never, in many years, I got that kind of interpretation. It was more like “hey human, you are so doomed. Here you go: salvation. Now, in your unpayable gratitude, go and spread the word of what I’m doing, and do good stuff. Remember, without this gift, you were nothing, so, behave.”
Kind of like tiktokers that give stuff to homeless, trying to become viral… but a bit more ominous…
Sure, glory is promised, but you gotta die first.
Also, this “god entering our heart” seen more like “having the unmeasurable honor of being noticed by this god, and (mind being blown) he cares about me”. So the expected answer is eternal gratitude and a “debt of love”.
Yeah, the debate over the nature of how exactly sacrament works and what the purpose is not a singular belief in Christianity and like the Trinity is one of the things that has been debated within councils and philosophy endlessly. The Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are the main two that hold it physically becomes the body and blood of Jesus. The big Protestant churches run the gamut of “body and blood is present but it’s still bread and wine” to “present in spirit” to “this is bread and wine; the act is symbolic”. That’s also why some can substitute grape juice or water and the act is still valid.
So for catholics the wine has to be unadultered? Like with alcohol and all?