This article is a carry over from yesterday’s article on Cedarville University, Anthony Moore and Thomas White. As a short background to Cedarville U, Cedarville University was for many years Cedarville College and an approved school of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) https://www.garbc.org/.
Interestingly, time either makes men and organizations either stronger or weaker. When the GARBC abandoned the approval system it wasn’t long until Cedarville was accepted as a school of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Now, becoming an approved school of the SBC doesn’t mean this issue with Anthony Moore is a direct result of that but read the following article and make your own judgement.
‘I’ve had an unusually high amount of people who wish to stay anonymous feeding me information on the Anthony Moore/Thomas White/Cedarville University scandal. I tip my hat to all of you for the excellent work you have done. Shortly after publishing this article, I received some additional evidence that Dr. Thomas White, President of Cedarville University, has not been truthful in the statement he published on April 24, 2020.
Here are some items mentioned by Thomas White in his statement:
“To the best of our ability, we attempted to establish that in the beginning of this plan, Anthony would be a staff member performing administrative responsibilities and doing whatever was needed to allow for more time between his sinful action and meaningful ministry.
That letter included the following statements:
- He would begin as staff, and not faculty, to build a track record of continued faithfulness before engaging with our students.
Going into the second year, I checked with his pastor and Dr. Lee to see if they had any concerns, since those two had worked most closely with Anthony. Neither expressed concerns. We proceeded with our stated plan for year two. At this point, it was 18 months from when I first learned of this incident before Anthony served as a professor in a classroom.
On October 3, 2018, our Trustees interviewed Anthony, just as they would any other potential faculty member at Cedarville University. On October 4, 2018, Trustees voted to approve granting Anthony a faculty title and allowing him to teach in our School of Biblical and Theological Studies.”
The documentation below seems to prove that White is a prevaricator. But perhaps he can offer a plausible explanation.
Less than 2 months after Moore was hired by Thomas White it appears he was on a Biblical Apologetics panel. It would sure seem that Dean Jason Lee – a good friend of Moore, has him on the panel as a Bible professor.
On April 24, 2020, I published a guest post by Lee Enochs. Mr. Enochs is an intelligent man who provided me with some crucial information in the case of Anthony Moore. However, it needs to be noted that Mr. Enochs was not my only source of information for this story.
In Mr. Enochs post he stated:
“I also have no personal animosity towards Dr. Thomas White who I count as a long time brother and friend. I take him at his word that he did not know the full extent of Anthony Moore’s surveillance activities before he hired Dr. Moore at Cedarville University in 2018.”
Additionally, Mr Enochs stated:
“I spoke to Dr. White yesterday and he told me he did not know the full extent of Dr. Moore’s unwarranted surveillance of another individual when Moore was a pastor at the Village Church in Fort Worth.”
I don’t fault Mr. Enochs for taking his friend, Thomas White, at his word; he has known White for a long time and known him to be honest. But I would submit that at times when we are emotionally involved in a situation it’s hard to objectively analyze what is shared by a close friend. Below are three points for consideration:
- A different source who has proven reliable told me that, “All Cedarville staff from bottom up, all who needed to know, were fully aware of what happened.” Additionally, my source said TVC advised Cedarville staff that hiring Moore could potentially be putting others at risk.
- Thomas White’s statement must be evaluated in light of the fact that he is fighting to keep his job.
- Thomas White, in his statement of April 24, 2020 stated: “On April 22, 2020, I learned that I did not have all the information about the original incident. Instead of at most two videos, I heard there were at least five videos. Instead of this being over a short period of time, I heard that these were taken over a period of at least five months.” Whether White knew of two videos or five videos is irrelevant. One video should have been enough to prevent White from hiring his friend, Anthony Moore.’ This is a very lengthy article but well worth the read and may be found at https://thouarttheman.org/2020/04/27/oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave/
In closing there seems to be within Christianity grace shown and a job waiting for member of the good ole boy’s club who has sinned. However, no such grace or job is waiting for the person not a member.
This type of Christianity has infected way too many organized Christian organizations from schools, mission organizations, church conventions and fellowships. Nevertheless someday true born-again believers ‘…must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad’ 2 Corinthians 5:10.
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