Martin Luther King Jr. is well known for his womanizing. Some reports say that there were close to forty extra-marital affairs during the course of his ministry. What is less well known is his unorthodox, if not heretical, positions on some of the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith. It is without a doubt that this man was heavily coached by others throughout his career as a minister and activist and it is probably the philanderer, rather than the philosopher, that is the true representation of the man.
In 1957, King was invited by Billy Graham to preach jointly with him at a revival in New York City. It would be Graham who would spearhead the post-war transition from a Christianity, that stood on biblical principles and virtues, to a Judeo-Christian pseudo-religion whereby certain people play by different rules depending on their ethnic backgrounds. A new religion, where the verity of the message is not displayed by the martyrdom of its adherents, but rather by the opulence, fame, and access to state power of its preachers.
No one religious leader ever had the reach that Billy Graham had. It is estimated that his message reached over 2 billion people during the course of his ministry. He was able to personally provide spiritual counsel to every president from Truman to Obama. So was his ministry a success? Is America a more Christian nation than it was in the 1940s when he started his ministry? Absolutely not.
On the outside looking in, it appears as if Graham was giving spiritual counsel to our presidents. It is said that he had an especially close relationship with Lyndon Johnson. However, upon closer inspection, we can see the majority of the counseling was going the other way. What other preacher was allowed a primetime spot on national television?
It was Johnson, by the way, who weakened the church’s political power by working to take away their tax free status if they were seen as too political. In fact, there has been a steady erosion of Christian freedoms since the end of the Second World War, all the while, a chosen group of authorized religious leaders have become millionaires.
Throughout the latter part of the twentieth century, you could see these men on your television, basking in their fame and wealth. Some would sit on golden “thrones,” some would preach in crystal cathedrals, and some would use their powers to heal ailments over the airwaves.
These men are a far cry from the true Christian leaders of the past. Men who would speak truth to power about evil and corruption, no matter what it cost them. Men who would bravely face torture and death, while never compromising on the principles of their faith.
Now, instead of strong, Christian men, we have effeminate males and traitors who stand in the place of our great leaders of the past. They get their positions, as heads of their respective religious organizations, by mouthing exactly what their rulers in Washington, DC, want them to say. This compromise gives them access to state power, which is what they seek most of all.
James Merritt is an excellent example of a failed “Christian” leader. Merritt has been in the top echelon of the Southern Baptist Convention since the beginning of this century and has even served as their president. During his time as a prominent religious figure, we have seen the legalisation of same-sex marriage, as well as, a general uptick in sexual degeneracy altogether. While sexual predators have been looking to gain access to our children, James Merritt chose instead to use his position of power within the Southern Baptist Convention to attack Southerners who have been dead for 150 years. Very brave.
Our youth can see right through this fraudulent joke that is modern, evangelical Christianity. They are either leaving the church completely or are returning to more traditional forms of worship. I personally do not blame them. All is not lost, though, and this failure of the religious leaders of the last generation leaves us with a few good opportunities. If we are wise and willing to make the proper sacrifices, we can rescue a quality existence for our children.
Someone who calls himself a preacher, and is dripping with the gold of his flock at the same time the world collapses around him, is obviously a charlatan and has lost his ability to be a moral example. Christianity is a religion of self-sacrifice, not self-enrichment. I believe that these men are imposters who do not sincerely believe in the fundamental truths of the Christian faith. If they did, they would not be so quick to latch on to the “morals” of their seculars masters and might actually be willing to experience a little discomfort for the sake of the true Christain message.
We, in the Underground Church, are currently experiencing persecution, and are almost guaranteed to receive more if we continue upon our called path. The pain that we endure is an example of our authenticity. When a bunch of atheist billionaires and their bought-off preacher cronies are working together to silence you, then you must be on the right path.
-By Dixie Anon
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
DA.
Thank you for this. Elder failure is truly single point of blame in the evangelical church. Doctrine aside, I think the reformed Presbyterian church gets governance and accountability right, structurally.
So how does a white-pilled Christian find a healthy, clear-headed church? That is, short of interviewing the staff / Elders, are there outward signs a church is pursuing good and righteous aims?
You all seem to think saying “Jesus is a dead jew” over and over changes anyone’s mind about anything. We know! Flip the tape over and let’s hear the other side!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqKP2wqsAj0
Hear, hear!
Numbers 23:19 in no way disproves the divinity of Christ.
First of all God had not became incarnate in human flesh at this time. He didn’t take on human flesh until he was born of the Virgin Mary. So God wasn’t a man in any sense of the word at this time.
Second The point of the verse is to show that God is omnipotent and of a different nature than man, and entirely without sin. Hence why he need not repent.
It’s also important to remember is that At the incarnation, Jesus remained 100% God as well as 100% man.
Coid Mór
I am not sure why the hate of Christianity is likely the single most defining trait of jewishness. Observant (atheist), observant (non-athiest), and secular jews all seem to uphold hating Christianity as a sacrament most holy.
I am sure no one here hates you for your jewishness, so please try to be respectful while commenting in this Christian space.
No one here hates your jewishness. Peace.
Im not jewish, I’m Dál Riada Scots… https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/the-twelve-or-so-tribes-of-israel/
You’re basically taking the side of the modernists liberals as well as the Christian cults like the JWs.
Contrary to what you say, Jesus states his divinity on numerous occasions;
Titus 2:13, John 1:1, John 1:18, Colossians 2:9, John 1:14, John 10:30-33, John 5:18, John 8:24, John 8:58, Exodus 3:14, John 20:28, Philippians 2:5-8, Hebrew 1:8, John 9:35-38, Hebrews 1:6, Revelation 1:17-18, Romans 10:13-14
The divinity of Christ, the belief in monotheism, as well as the belief of three persons within the Godhead. Is well attested by most of the early Church Fathers;
Polycarp (70-155/160). Bishop of Smyrna. Disciple of John the Apostle.
“O Lord God almighty . . . I bless you and glorify you through the eternal and heavenly high priest Jesus Christ, your beloved Son, through whom be glory to you, with Him and the Holy Spirit, both now and forever” (n. 14, ed. Funk; PG 5.1040).
The Didache
“After the foregoing instructions, baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in living [running] water. . . . If you have neither, pour water three times on the head, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” (Didache 7:1 [A.D. 70]).
Justin Martyr
“We will prove that we worship him reasonably; for we have learned that he is the Son of the true God himself, that he holds a second place, and the Spirit of prophecy a third. For this they accuse us of madness, saying that we attribute to a crucified man a place second to the unchangeable and eternal God, the Creator of all things; but they are ignorant of the mystery which lies therein” (First Apology 13:5–6 [A.D. 151]).
Ignatius of Antioch (died 98/117). Bishop of Antioch. He wrote much in defense of Christianity.
“In Christ Jesus our Lord, by whom and with whom be glory and power to the Father with the Holy Spirit for ever” (n. 7; PG 5.988).
“We have also as a Physician the Lord our God Jesus the Christ the only-begotten Son and Word, before time began, but who afterwards became also man, of Mary the virgin. For ‘the Word was made flesh.’ Being incorporeal, He was in the body; being impassible, He was in a passable body; being immortal, He was in a mortal body; being life, He became subject to corruption, that He might free our souls from death and corruption, and heal them, and might restore them to health, when they were diseased with ungodliness and wicked lusts.” (Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., The ante-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975 rpt., Vol. 1, p. 52, Ephesians 7.)
Ireneaus a.d. 110-190
The Church, though dispersed through our the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith: [She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents, and the birth from a virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] manifestation from heaven in the glory of the Father “to gather all things in one,” . . .
Against Heresies Book I Chapter X
The rule of truth which we hold, is, that there is one God Almighty, who made all things by His Word, and fashioned and formed, out of that which had no existence, all things which exist. Thus saith the Scripture, to that effect “By the Word of the Lord were the heavens established, and all the might of them, by the spirit of His mouth.” And again, “All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made.” There is no exception or deduction stated; but the Father made all things by Him, whether visible or invisible, objects of sense or of intelligence, temporal, on account of a certain character given them, or eternal; and these eternal things He did not make by angels, or by any powers separated from His Ennœa.
For God needs none of all these things, but is He who, by His Word and Spirit, makes, and disposes, and governs all things, and commands all things into existence,—He who formed the world (for the world is of all),—He who fashioned man,—He [who] is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, above whom there is no other God, nor initial principle, nor power, nor pleroma,—He is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we shall prove.
Book I Chapter XXII
Therefore neither would the Lord, nor the Holy Spirit, nor the apostles, have ever named as God, definitely and absolutely, him who was not God, unless he were truly God; nor would they have named any one in his own person Lord, except God the Father ruling over all, and His Son who has received dominion from His Father over all creation, as this passage has it: “The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.” Here the [Scripture] represents to us the Father addressing the Son; He who gave Him the inheritance of the heathen, and subjected to Him all His enemies. Since, therefore, the Father is truly Lord, and the Son truly Lord, the Holy Spirit has fitly designated them by the title of Lord.
Against Heresies Book III Chapter VI
For with Him were always present the Word and Wisdom, the Son and the Spirit, by whom and in whom, freely and spontaneously, He made all things, to whom also He speaks, saying, “Let Us make man after Our image and likeness;” He taking from Himself the substance of the creatures [formed], and the pattern of things made, and the type of all the adornments in the world.
Against Heresies Book IV Chapter XX
Tertullian (160-215). African apologist and theologian. He wrote much in defense of Christianity.
“We define that there are two, the Father and the Son, and three with the Holy Spirit, and this number is made by the pattern of salvation . . . [which] brings about unity in trinity, interrelating the three, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are three, not in dignity, but in degree, not in substance but in form, not in power but in kind. They are of one substance and power, because there is one God from whom these degrees, forms and kinds devolve in the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” (Adv. Prax. 23; PL 2.156-7).
Origen (185-254). Alexandrian theologian. Defended Christianity and wrote much about Christianity.
“If anyone would say that the Word of God or the Wisdom of God had a beginning, let him beware lest he direct his impiety rather against the unbegotten Father, since he denies that he was always Father, and that he has always begotten the Word, and that he always had wisdom in all previous times or ages or whatever can be imagined in priority . . . There can be no more ancient title of almighty God than that of Father, and it is through the Son that he is Father” (De Princ. 1.2.; PG 11.132).
“For if [the Holy Spirit were not eternally as He is, and had received knowledge at some time and then became the Holy Spirit] this were the case, the Holy Spirit would never be reckoned in the unity of the Trinity, i.e., along with the unchangeable Father and His Son, unless He had always been the Holy Spirit.” (Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, eds., The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975 rpt., Vol. 4, p. 253, de Principiis, 1.111.4)
“Moreover, nothing in the Trinity can be called greater or less, since the fountain of divinity alone contains all things by His word and reason, and by the Spirit of His mouth sanctifies all things which are worthy of sanctification . . . ” (Roberts and Donaldson, Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 4, p. 255, de Principii., I. iii. 7).
Cyprian a.d. 200–258
Finally, when, after the resurrection, the apostles are sent by the Lord to the heathens, they are bidden to baptize the Gentiles “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” How, then, do some say, that a Gentile baptized without, outside the Church, yea, and in opposition to the Church, so that it be only in the name of Jesus Christ, everywhere, and in whatever manner, can obtain remission of sin, when Christ Himself commands the heathen to be baptized in the full and united Trinity?
Epistle LXXII.5.18
What a tangled web. Look, the whole message of Jesus is about forgiveness. Forgiveness is a double edged sword. It cuts the knots that tie us to the past and keep us from moving forward, free and unfettered. It also cuts through our defenses, leaving us feeling exposed and vulnerable. It’s a constant struggle. The world is a predatory place… since He was the sacrifice, we dont have to be sacrificed, say, for adultery. I know I’d be dead if that were the case. All the rest is how many Angel’s are dancing on the pinhead.