SBC: The Truth about MLK

Today we are going to do something a little different.

Originally today was going to be the last day of our Judging the Judges series, however we are going to end the series early.

The reason for this is because I have continued to come across a specific topic over the last few weeks that I think is very important for us to look at.

I have continued to see videos and articles, and I have researched this a lot, and determined at some point I would love to share this, but I couldn’t find the right time.

So I start to prepare the last week of the Judges series and just didn’t feel like it was right.

And then all of the sudden I realized that tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. day, and that solidified it for me.

What I want to talk about today is simple, I want to share truth.

Let me start with this statement.

The overall cultural perspective on the person and character of Martin Luther King Jr., I believe is dishonest and incorrect.

Now you say Zach, who cares, like why are taking a Sunday morning class to beat up on someone whose been dead for decades?

Three reasons.

It is important to know truth.

We should not remember and celebrate the personal character of heretical and wicked men to the level we have.

It serves as an opportunity to reevaluate correct doctrine.

It allows us to question the relationship between wicked and sinful men doing great things.

These are topic we will be looking at.

Now I want to preface with this.

What I am challenging today is not the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King.

We are strictly looking at his character, his beliefs, and the challenge of how we should remember him as a person.

I think that it would be good for us to not forget Martin Luther King day, but instead remember it as a day of victory for civil rights.

I think it would be beneficial to have a day that remember the sin of a nation discriminating solely on the color of skin, which scripture clearly teaches against.

However currently this day is focused heavily on the person and character of Martin Luther King, and I think this is a mistake.

Now what I am going to share with you today may be shocking....

It may be difficult to comprehend or accept

But truth is more important than our feelings.

And the origin of sin is when we let our feelings and desires take precedence over truth.

So we are going to jump right into this and discover the truth of who Martin Luther King Jr. was, and if he is someone who should have an entire day of the year dedicated to his memory.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, into a home that was religious, educated, and socially prominent within the Black community.

He was not raised in poverty. He was not raised on the margins of society. He was raised in what would be considered a stable, upper-middle-class household for his time.

His father, Martin Luther King Sr., was a Baptist pastor and served for decades at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. His mother, Alberta Williams King, was a schoolteacher and church organist. The King household was deeply involved in church life, public engagement, and education.

From a young age, Martin Luther King Jr. was surrounded by:

Church leadership

Public speaking

Academic expectation

Social consciousness

This matters — because his upbringing shaped how he viewed faith, authority, and society.

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Education and Intellectual Formation

King was an exceptional student.

He skipped grades and entered Morehouse College at just 15 years old. Morehouse was not merely a college — it was a hub of Black intellectual thought, social theory, and theological liberalism.

While at Morehouse, King came under the influence of professors who emphasized:

Social ethics over personal holiness

Moral philosophy over biblical authority

Christianity as a tool for social reform rather than a message of redemption from sin

It was here that King’s understanding of Christianity began to shift.

He did not reject religion. He reinterpreted it.

Faith, for him, increasingly became about:

Social justice

Moral progress

Collective improvement

Rather than:

Sin and repentance

Substitutionary atonement

Regeneration by the Spirit

Seminary and Theological Direction

King later attended Crozer Theological Seminary, and then pursued doctoral studies at Boston University.

This stage of his life is critical.

These institutions were firmly rooted in theological liberalism. They openly questioned:

The historicity of biblical miracles

The uniqueness of Christ

The authority and inerrancy of Scripture

King thrived in this environment.

He openly embraced thinkers who viewed Christianity through:

Existential philosophy

Social ethics

Human-centered moral progress

By his own writings and academic work, King did not hold to historic Christian orthodoxy. He viewed many biblical doctrines as symbolic rather than literal.

This was not an accident. This was formation.

Summary Before Moving On

So before Martin Luther King Jr. ever became a national figure, three things were already true:

He was deeply shaped by church culture, but increasingly detached from biblical theology.

He was intellectually formed in liberal institutions that rejected core Christian doctrines.

He viewed Christianity primarily as a moral and social framework, not a redemptive gospel.

This does not yet speak to his activism. It does not yet speak to his legacy.

It simply establishes the foundation.

Because before a man leads a movement, he is first shaped by a worldview.

And that worldview will always show itself — eventually.

Now here is why we are looking at all of this.

Because someon’s backround is very important to understanding their theology.

Someone who was raised under correct doctrine, should be judged differently than someone who was taught incorrectly and must discover the truth for themselves.

Martin Luther King was definitely in the former category.

He was taught what was right, but like many Biblical scholars they studied the Bible past what it says.

There is a very serious danger in seminar and Biblical study, and I think it can be broken down to this.

THEOLOGY IS SIMPLE - IT IS EASILY UNDERSTOOD BY THE AVERAGE MAN

So what a good seminary or Bible college should do is only further support and build up that basic theology, not try to reinterprate it.

And this really is an issue of pride.

There is a certain level of pride that comes with the mindset that everyone else is wrong, and me in my advanced intelligence have figured out this truth that the average person just can’t grasp.

If a basic aspect of theology takes years of seminary to comprehend, than it is not true. God does not require the average man to attend years of Bible college to understand his word, and yet men like Martin Luther King Jr., in their pride determined that their higher intellect has allowed them to uncover the truth, opposite of what has been commonly known and understood for thousands of years.

So what did he believe?

Well I don’t want you to take my word for it, I want you to see it yourself.

Martin Luther King was one of the most well documented men in history.

So this allows us to clearly understand what he believed with little doubt.

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Denial of a Literal Hell

“Recently, a very serious minded friend of mine asked me the question, why religion?13 I found myself unable to give a concrete answer to this question, for I had never given it a thought. I could have probably answered his question by saying, if you have religion you will go to heaven, but in reality I know nothing about heaven. Or I could have said, if you dont have religion you will go to hell, but personally I dont believe in hell in the conventional sense.”

-MLK Jr. Sermon Introductions - Why Religion?

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/sermon-sketches

Matthew 10:28 “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Luke 16:22–24 “So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’”

Matthew 25:41 ““Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

Matthew 13:42 “and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

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Denial of the Divinity of Christ

“Where then can we in the liberal tradition find the divine dimension in Jesus? We may find the divinity of Christ not in his substantial unity with God, but in his filial consciousness and in his unique dependence upon God. It was his felling of absolute dependence on God, as Schleiermaker would say, that made him divine. Yes it was the warmnest of his devotion to God and the intimatcy of his trust in God that accounts for his being the supreme revelation of God. All of this reveals to us that one man has at last realized his true divine calling: That of becoming a true son of man by becoming a true son of God. It is the achievement of a man who has, as nearly as we can tell, completely opened his life to the influence of the divine spirit.

The orthodox attempt to explain the divinity of Jesus in terms of an inherent metaphysical substance within him seems to me quite inadaquate. To say that the Christ, whose example of living we are bid to follow, is divine in an ontological sense is actually harmful and detrimental. To invest this Christ with such supernatural qualities makes the rejoinder: “Oh, well, he had a better chance for that kind of life than we can possible have.” In other words, one could easily use this as a means to hide behind behind his failures. So that the orthodox view of the divinity of Christ is in my mind quite readily denied. The true significance of the divinity of Christ lies in the fact that his achievement is prophetic and promissory for every other true son of man who is willing to submit his will to the will and spirit og God. Christ was to be only the prototype of one among many brothers.

The appearance of such a person, more divine and more human than any other, and standing in closest unity at once with God and man, is the most significant and hopeful event in human history. This divine quality or this unity with God was not something thrust upon Jesus from above, but it was a definite achievement through the process of moral struggle and self-abnegation.”

"The Humanity and Divinity of Jesus"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: November 29, 1949 to February 15, 1950?

Location: Chester, Pa.?

Genre: Essay

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/humanity-and-divinity-jesus

“Who was this Jesus? They saw that Jesus could not merely be explained in terms of the psychological mood of the age in which he lived, for such explaination failed to answer another inescapable question: Why did Jesus differ from many others in the same setting? And so the early Christians answered this question by saying that he was the divine son of God. As Hedley laconically states, “the church had found God in Jesus, and so it called Jesus the Christ; and later under the influence of Greek thought-forms, the only begotten Son of God.” \[Footnote:] Hedley, op. cit., p. 37.\ The Church called Jesus divine because they had found God in him. They could only identify him with the highest and best in the universe. It was this great experience with the historical Jesus that led the early Christians to see him as the divine son of God.”

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: September 13, 1949 to November 23, 1949 ?

Location: Chester, Pa. ?

Genre: Essay

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/what-experiences-christians-living-early-christian-century-led-christian

John 1:1–3 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

John 10:30 “I and My Father are one.””

Titus 2:13 “looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,”

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Denial of the Virgin Birth

This doctrine gives the modern scientific mind much more trouble than the first, for it seems downright improbable and even impossible for anyone to be born without a human father.

First we must admit that the evidence for the tenability of this doctrine is to shallow to convince any objective thinker.

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: September 13, 1949 to November 23, 1949 ?

Location: Chester, Pa. ?

Genre: Essay

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/what-experiences-christians-living-early-christian-century-led-christian

Galatians 4:4 “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,”

Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.”

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Denial of the Resurrection

From a literary, historical, and philosophical point of view this doctrine raises many questions.6 In fact the external evidence for the authenticity of this doctrine is found wanting........

They had been captivated by the magnetic power of his personality. This basic experience led to the faith that he could never die. And so in the pre-scientific thought pattern of the first century, this inner faith took outward form.

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: September 13, 1949 to November 23, 1949 ?

Location: Chester, Pa. ?

Genre: Essay

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/what-experiences-christians-living-early-christian-century-led-christian

Romans 1:4 “and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.”

Acts 2:31–32 “he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.”

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Evolutionary Creationism

In the light of modern scientific knowledge religion proposes as its view of the world a theory of creative evolution. Here we find creation and evolution existing together. The religious man sees God working through the evolutionary process.

"What Experiences of Christians Living in the Early Christian Century Led to the Christian Doctrines of the Divine Sonship of Jesus, the Virgin Birth, and the Bodily Resurrection"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: September 13, 1949 to November 23, 1949 ?

Location: Chester, Pa. ?

Genre: Essay

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/what-experiences-christians-living-early-christian-century-led-christian

Psalm 33:6 “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.”

Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”

Jeremiah 27:5 “‘I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are on the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it to whom it seemed proper to Me.”

Isaiah 45:12 “I have made the earth, And created man on it. I—My hands—stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.”

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A Faulty Conversion

On Sunday morning the guest evangelist came into our Sunday School to talk to us about salvation, and after a short talk on this point he extended an invitation to any of us who wanted to join the church. My sister was the first one to join the church that morning, and after seeing her join I decided that I would not let her get ahead of me, so I was the next. I had never given this matter a thought, and even at the time of {my} baptism I was unaware of what was taking place. From this it seems quite clear that I joined the church not out of any dynamic conviction, but out of a childhood desire to keep up with my sister......

Conversion for me has been the gradual intaking of the noble {ideals} set forth in my family and my environment, and I must admit that this intaking has been largely unconscious....

At the age of 13 I shocked my Sunday School class by denying the bodily resurrection of Jesus. From the age of thirteen on doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly. At the age of fifteen I entered college and more and more could I see a gap between what I had learned in Sunday School and what I was learning in college. This conflict continued until I studied a course in Bible in which I came to see that behind the legends and myths of the Book were many profound truths which one could not escape......

My days in college were very exciting ones. As stated above, my college training, especially the first two years, brought many doubts into my mind. It was at this period that the shackles of fundamentalism were removed from my body. This is why, when I came to Crozer, I could accept the liberal interpretation with relative ease.

"An Autobiography of Religious Development"

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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)

Date: September 12, 1950 to November 22, 1950?

Location: Chester, Pa.?

Genre: Autobiography

Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education

Psalm 12:6 “The words of the Lord are pure words, Like silver tried in a furnace of earth, Purified seven times.”

John 17:17 “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”

2 Timothy 3:16–17 “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

Now much of his religious writings came early while he was in Seminary.

Some would argue that these were just uninformed college ramblings, and he came to the truth later, however we find as time goes on that his words become more religious, but also more vague.

He had specifically mentioned in his writings that he was a beleiver in Liberal Theology.

This is a broad term, but it can be described as interpreting scripture from context rather than its substance.

So it inherently means that there is no objective truth in scripture, and what is found beneficial must be supported by context, authrorship, logic, science, etc.

The issue for King overtime however was he began to become more prominent in religious circles of all different backgrounds.

No doubt, if he had held to a strictly biblical faith, his reach would not have beenas wide as it was.

He was a master at the craft of teaching vague information just specific enough that whoever was listening could identify with what he was teaching.

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EX: His 10 commandments for Non-Violence

Meditate daily on the teachings and life of Jesus.

Remember always that the non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation - not victory.

Walk and talk in the manner of love, for God is love.

Pray daily to be used by God in order that all men might be free.

Sacrifice personal wishes in order that all men might be free.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Seek to perform regular service for others and for the world.

Refrain from the violence of fist, tongue, or heart.

Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health.

Follow the directions of the movement and of the captain on a demonstration.

While these may sound like the writings of a christian man, a Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, and even an agnostic could identify with this list.

This was common throughout his writings later in his life.

The message shifted slightly depending on the audience, but was overall vague and deceptive.

So based on the personal writings of King himself, and no indication of repentance, or a truthful change in mindset or belief, Martin Luther King Jr. was not a christian, and he can be safely categorized as a false prophet.

And if his own writings were not enough to convince you of his true heart, than his lifestyle certainty would be.

I want to read an article that references the recent findings of shocking details of King’s personal life. This was written in 2019, the documents references were released in 2018.

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Multiple Suicide Attempts

Dr. King’s mental health challenges can be traced back to his early years, with two events, both involving his beloved grandmother, Jennie Williams, having a particular impact on the young boy. The first incident occurred when Martin was still a child, and his brother inadvertently knocked his grandmother unconscious while sliding down a bannister. Believing her to be dead, Martin jumped out of a second-story window, but he was luckily unscathed and rose up, relieved to find her alive and well. The second came in May 1941, when the 12-year-old Martin went to watch a parade against his parents’ wishes while they were out of town attending a church event. Upon returning home, he discovered that the same grandmother had suffered a heart attack and died. Overwhelmed with guilt and believing that his disobedience had contributed to her death, he again jumped from a second-story window of his family home. While this episode is widely agreed also to have been a genuine suicide attempt, the young boy fortunately survived the fall without serious injury.

https://www.ukat.co.uk/blog/society/martin-luther-king-jr-the-weight-of-leadership/

The reason we are mentioning this, is in his writings, King paints his family growing up as one of kindness, peace, love, and stability.

However it seems even from a very early age there were some serious issues in the family dynamic

This does not prove or mean to point to anything other than the fact that two suicide attempts before the age of 12 over events that were not even directly his fault, seem to indicate a mental struggle, and fractured family dynamic very early on.

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Chronic Adultery & Marital Unfaithfulness

Soon after King’s death, several members of his inner circle, including Ralph Abernathy, started publicly discussing King’s philandering.

At the time, many justified his behavior by saying it was no different from the biblical David writing his psalms by day, only to be relieved at night by his concubines. Others pursued a line of defense extended to John F. Kennedy: What someone does in their own time isn’t the public’s business.

Garrow had outlined several of King’s marital infelicities in his 1986 biography of King. But he often spared the names of the women involved to protect their identities. Finally, in 2010, Kentucky State Sen. Georgia Davis Powers recounted her intimate relationship with King in her book “I Shared the Dream.”

Garrow writes that King may have fathered a daughter with Dolores Evans, a girlfriend of his who is still alive and living in Los Angeles. The memos also detail the closeness of his relationship with Dorothy Cotton, a longtime associate of King’s in Atlanta and director of his organization’s Citizen Education Program. It appears that the two were romantically involved.

Many of these transcripts were based on audiotapes that are still sealed under a court order.

https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-be-able-to-view-king-in-the-same-light-118015

Coretta King is said to have complained that her husband was “not fulfilling his marital responsibilities” and that “if he spent 10 hours a month at home, it would be an exaggeration”. King retorted that “she should go out and have some sexual affairs of her own”, according to an FBI report.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/fbi-tapes-reveal-martin-luther-kings-affairs-with-40-women-058h7k9wd?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdveuoKchupAKkLPRMCU5wESMzG7DtPIEdygZ8JYr0zyzs7x2c1fbIzOrNNyXU%3D&gaa_ts=696bc135&gaa_sig=N7k3n03fAujhDPjnqQFKOJS7klBVxAdlojL14Q9fZr6joGEr1FUR76w_vK3ve0jWJzo3IHXOEQUimdieRerktA%3D%3D

Shortly before King’s death, Garrow writes in Standpoint, he told the congregation of his Ebenezer Baptist church in Atlanta that “there is a schizophrenia . . . going on within all of us. There are times that all of us know somehow that there is a Mr Hyde and a Dr Jekyll in us”.

Garrow said future biographers would have to address evidence that King was a manic depressive, known today as bipolar, and subject to wild mood swings and occasional collapses.

King told his congregation that “God does not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mistakes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives.” Perhaps he realised that the dark side of his remarkable life would one day, ruinously, come to light.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/fbi-tapes-reveal-martin-luther-kings-affairs-with-40-women-058h7k9wd?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdveuoKchupAKkLPRMCU5wESMzG7DtPIEdygZ8JYr0zyzs7x2c1fbIzOrNNyXU%3D&gaa_ts=696bc135&gaa_sig=N7k3n03fAujhDPjnqQFKOJS7klBVxAdlojL14Q9fZr6joGEr1FUR76w_vK3ve0jWJzo3IHXOEQUimdieRerktA%3D%3D

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A Criminal Womanizer

With suspicion that MLK might have been involved in communist agendas, they began monitoring him heavily.

I want to read a section of an article describing one event the FBI was able to survey

The memos show that agents knew that King and a group including Baltimore Pastor Logan Kearse were going to be staying at the Willard Hotel in January 1964 days before he ever arrived.

By bugging the room, they were able to listen in on King and at least 11 others participated in what the FBI memos describe as “an orgy” on Jan. 6, 1964.

The microphones also picked up activities from the night before, when Kearse, who died in 1991, allegedly sexually assaulted one of his parishioners. According to the memos, King was in the room. The handwritten note indicates that King didn’t just observe the assault – he laughed.

Worse, instead of trying to stop the incident, the memos say King apparently offered advice to the perpetrator, encouraging the abuse.

-https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-scholar-and-ill-never-be-able-to-view-king-in-the-same-light-118015

This source also goes on to explain in depth the verification of the recordings.

Now I must put a disclaimer on this information.

Part of the title of this message is..”Is this the last Martin Luther King Jr. Day”? and the reason for it is this...

The totality of these records, tapes, writings, etc. are set to be released on January 31st of next year.

Much of this information we have comes from records released about the JFK Assassination a few years back, and this information was included.

But usually leading up to the full release of documents like this, sections of them are released prior.

So the reason for the title of this message, is that it is very likely by this time next year, some of these documetns will be released.

Now my disclaimer is this. These claims are based on the extensive research of a Pulitzer Prize Winning author, and much of it has been backed up by multiple witnesses.

However, there is a possibility that these files come out and it is found that all of this was simply FBI conspiracy to discredit him.

But, I think with his fractured religious background, the mountain of evidence, personal testimonies, and overall opinion from those who knew him personally, it seems likely that this information is true.

I want to say this too.

We are not basing any of the main points we are looking at today from a doctrinal perspective on all of this.

So even if it were to come out that all of these things were lies, and he was an upstanding moral man, which again I do not believe is true, it is his doctrine that is the issue, and the common viewpoint that he was a christian man.

This is dangerous because if we believe figures as prominent as Martin Luther King Jr. are christian men, then we will believe their teachings as truth, and this leads to deception.

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So again why are we looking into all of this?

Is the point here to slander a man who was known for leading one of the greatest civil rights movements in history just for fun?

No, what we are doing today is exactly what scripture tells us to do.

Expose false prophets.

Matthew 7:15–20 ““Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

Galatians 1:8–9 “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.”

Ephesians 5:11 “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.”

From the researched evidence we have, the hundreds upon hundreds of articles, interviews, and deep studies by some of the worlds leading Bible scholars, and his own specific writings, it can be said, I believe without a doubt, that Martin Luther King Jr. was not a christian, and he was a false prophet, and a corrupt man, who should not be idolized or remembered for his character, expecially among Christians.

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This lesson is also serving as somewhat of a transition into our apologetics series next week.

King’s liberal theology is the center of much of what modern biblical apologetics centers around.

It is not the complete rejection of the Bible that results in success but rather deception of the Bible itself.

And this is where apologetics is generally centered especially in America. Not trying to teach unknown truths but rather trying to correct false teaching.

And this is exactly what Martin Luther King Jr. was doing.

Yes his movement resulted in some wonderful things, and we should remember that, but we should not idolize the character of a false prophet, and morally corrupt man.