*A distinguished megachurch pastor has asserted that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was “not a Christian in any respect.”
John MacArthur — an 85-year-old white male pastor of Grace Group Church in Solar Valley, California — made the declare throughout a sermon final month, LGBTQ Nation stories.
In his remarks, he criticized a bunch of evangelical pastors often called Collectively for the Gospel [T4G], for honoring King a number of years in the past, Proper Wing Watch reported.
“[T4G] purchased into the deceptiveness of the woke motion and the racial baiting that was occurring a few years in the past, and it actually put them out of existence,” MacArthur stated. “The unusual irony was a 12 months later, they did the identical factor for Martin Luther King, who was not a Christian in any respect, whose life was immoral.”
MacArthur continued, “I’m not saying [King] didn’t do some social good, and I’ve at all times been glad he was a pacifist or he might have began an actual revolution. However you don’t honor a non-believer who misrepresented Christ and every little thing concerning the gospel.”
Per LGBTQ Nation, MacArthur beforehand stated, “The Bible is abundantly clear — slavery is the center of what it means to be a real Christian,” and “Christianity doesn’t free slaves. Christianity doesn’t give equal social rights. … Jesus didn’t propound equal rights and he didn’t upset the social order…. Quite, all of them affirmed that, with nice concern of God and nice respect, you might be to be submissive to your masters. Whether or not they’re good and mild or whether or not they’re unreasonable — you might be to submit.”
MacArthur additionally takes an anti-LGBTQ+ stance, claiming homosexual individuals don’t actually exist.
“Nobody is homosexual. Folks commit adultery, they commit sins of homosexuality, they lie, they steal, they cheat,” he stated, accordign to The Pleasant Atheist.
“That’s like saying, ‘You already know, I maintain robbing banks, however I’m a robber. I’m a financial institution robber. What am I gonna do? I’m a financial institution robber.’ That’s not an excuse for what you do,” MacArthur added. “Are there sure type of impulses that lead individuals in that course? Sure. However I believe one of many actually lethal points of that is to let individuals outline themselves as homosexual.”
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