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Why are there so many Baptist churches named "Morning Star"?

Asked by grumpyfish (6657points) February 26th, 2010

I’ve seen at least three (one in Kentucky, one in California, one in Virginia). “Morningstar” seems like a strange name for a church, because of Isiah 12:14:

“How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!”
(New International Version)

(King James Version says:)
“O Lucifer, son of the morning!” for the second line.

I don’t know that much about Baptists, and so I don’t know how they choose the name of their congregations.

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