Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies
Cedarville professor, author on Christian sexual ethics, arrested on eight sex felonies
My humble opinion:
Many Christians (and people of other kinds of faith) truly want to be good humans. I know many christians. And although for many reasons I personally don’t take their faith for me, I do recognize their honest intentions and beautiful hearts.
Then… then we have these scumbags… these abominations that not only abuse (in the general sense), but also target and scar for life the most vulnerable members of our society. These excuses of human beings are a complete waste of air and must be castrated and let to rot in prison.
ritualized cannibalism wow, that’s new for me, would you mind to elaborate?
The rest, good points. You touched several reasons why I don’t endorse their faith myself.
Thanks for the comment
Meh… “eat god, becobe like god” makes no sense.
The whole point of Christianity (at least in this dimension) is that Jesus’ sacrifice is the ultimate mercyful gift fro God to undeserving humans. Participating in the communion is never a power trip to become like god, but a reminder that “you are still standing solely by his grace”.
2 Peter 1:4 - “Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature,having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”
John 17:21-23 - “that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation, circa 318–325 CE - “He became man so that we might become god.”
The concept is called theosis and is developed largely from those two verses and was further contemplated by early Catholics. Whether you become one with the godhead, like unto the godhead, or, such as in Mormonism, can literally become a god-being (though not the God) yourself varies by sect. Most agree that the communion does infer some sort of divine combining of one’s self with the god power. You can also see this concept in the idea of “invite Jesus into your heart”, or the gift of the Holy Spirit. Somehow some part of god is dwelling in you and you are a part of god.
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.