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To: metmom

I agree the issue should not be MLK’s final destination or try to figure out such things since it is above our pay grade. However I do see the importance of studying his “theology” so history does not paint a different picture.

If more “orthodox” Christians read his theological papers and opinions I think they would fall into the “shocked” or “disbelief” category.


60 posted on 01/21/2014 8:49:36 AM PST by redleghunter
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I can't believe so many people are missing what this is all about.

In orthodox (real) Baptist theology, a church is made up only of the "saved." It therefore goes without saying that any ordained Baptist minister must be "saved" as well.

By asking the question on whether King was "saved," the original poster is asking a much more profound and important question than whether King is "in Heaven." Who cares where he is? The point is that if King wasn't "saved," then he was not a real Baptist minister at all. Yet some people are so blinkered they don't seem to be able to even think of this.

Look, I'm not even a chrstian, and the obsession with the afterlife and whether or not one is "saved" is not a part of my religion at all. But I see the importance of this question, even if many of you do not.

The most fundamentalist Black chrstian in existence probably doesn't give a hoot as to whether King was an adulterer or a Communist. But he/she just might care that King "didn't believe the bible." This is the most important issue about King there is.

I simply cannot believe so many FReepers either don't care about this topic or even want to suppress discussion about it!

61 posted on 01/21/2014 11:08:16 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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