Was MLK Jr. a Christian?

It is not to anybody who attended seminary.

But I will open it up to see.

I started a thread to discuss the topic.

 

I agree. MLK did express many Christian views.

You are missing the point.

MLK, while affirming the resurrection, denied the bodily resurrectionion.

MLK while affirming the "empty tomb" denied it was empty of Jesus' dead body.

MLK while affirming Christ as God's Son denied that Jesus was God incarnate.

MLK while denying the virgin birth....well.....MLK flat our denied the virgin birth and claimed it a mistranslation.

 

No, that is juvenile thinking. You pretend MLK was a child when attending Crozer.

What is axiomatic is that you know you are wrong yet still insist on proving your faux ignorance.

 

No. I provided two papers - one of MLK explaining what he meant with the term and another of him using the term. With the bodily resurrection much more has been provided.


That's fine, @Van . You do not care to know about MLK or his life. This is unfortunate because he was an extraordinary man.

Instead you only want to know what good grew our of his accomplishments.

So you worship the myth rather than knowing the history. It doesn't matter here, but that will cripple you in other areas.

 

For those who have never attended seminary, written a theological thesis, or taken a philosophy course:

When you submit a theological thesis it is evaluated based on how well you have used research to support your argument, and how effectively you have communicated your ideas.

Seminary is not about memorizing the schools positions and turning that in for a grade. It is about developing, communicating, and defending your own beliefs.

This is, obviously, something foreign to @Van . I suspect his education to be in a different type of discipline (science, engineering, ect.) where his comments may apply.

 

You are changing your story.

First your claim was that MLK had to write his thesis to state the theory Crozer taught, that those were not MLK's beliefs but what he wrote to get a good grade.

Now you are saying MLK had to use the correct format for his paper.

Yes. In seminary students have to use a specific format.

No. A theological thesis is not restating the beliefs of the seminary. It is stating and defending your own belief on a particular topic.

MLK reconciled liberalism with Christianity and came up with heresy. He credited Crozer and Jones with his faith (Crozer for the social gospel, Jones with helping him to merge it with Chriatianity).

 

Please stop changing your story.

You said that MLK had to lie about his beliefs to get a good grade.

Then you offered proof in that colleges require a certain format for bibliographies.

Now your proof is multiple submittal?

The submission process is to clean up writing-format errors, elimate presuppositions (make sure the student is legitimately defending his or her point, avoiding that type of error), and legitimate use of sources.

It eliminates errors we see daily in debates here (not actually supporting a conclusion, logical errors, "plain meaning", "normal meaning", ect.).

Look, @Van , believe what you want. Any member here who has written a theological thesis, or a thesis in literature or philosophy, knows you are wrong.

I'm not saying Crozer taught in that way, but addressing the fact that you are wrong in your statement regarding having to restate a professors views to get a good grade in seminary.

MLK may have, as you imply, lacked character while attending Crozer and Boston University. He may have lied for his own gain. I just do not see that he was that kind of man.

MLK seems to me to be a man who had the character to stand for what he believed was right.

Do you have proof he was a fraud?