You're sure doing a lot of flailing for someone who claims to only listen to a teacher and disagree with him "10%" of the time. I'm not seeing much "objectivity" from you either! Here's some more:
To fully grasp the Shepherd’s Chapel delusion and how it took shape we must understand “Doctor” Arnold Murray’s connection to two white supremacist organizations called The Church of Jesus Christ and The Soldiers of the Cross and two prominent figures in the late 50’s: Roy Gillaspie and Kenneth Goff.
Goff and Gillaspie were very instrumental in the formation of the Christian Identity Movement and their financial backing was huge – Murray was simply a vessel for this new age racist theology…
Christian Identity is a bigoted theology espoused by many within the Aryan Nation, the KKK and every other type of white supremacist you can imagine. They believe that only the white people are the true Hebrews, God’s chosen… sound familiar?
In fact, Murray isn’t a “Doctor” at all unless you want to consider him a doctor of white supremacist theology — his ministry license was signed by Roy Gillaspie and Kenneth Goff.
Roy Gillaspie was the head pastor of the Church of Jesus Christ – a dyed in the wool Christian Identity organization. The church was located in California but there were several located around the U.S.
One of the organizations was in Arkansas – and guess who was the head pastor of that location? You guessed it! “Doctor” Arnold Murray. Seems our supremacist friends ordained Murray and sent him to spread the good news of white power in Arkansas.
In fact, Murray’s initial church, the satellite Church of Jesus Christ, eventually became THE SHEPHERD’S CHAPEL, and is in the same location as the original Christian Identity church un Gillaspie!
Kenneth Goff founded the seminary Soldier’s of the Cross, a training institute for the Christian Identity movement. This is where Murray received his training, this is where his so called “doctorate” comes from… what a farce!
He received it from a man (Goff) who described black civil rights protesters as: “seeking to submerge our culture and religious heritage under a flood of cannibalism, voodooism and beastly jungle sex orgies.”
In fact to this day Arkansas records show that a corporation known as the “Soldiers of the Cross” is doing business under the name of “The Shepherd’s Chapel” with Murray listed as the corporation’s agent. The property on which Shepherd’s Chapel resides is listed as property of the Soldiers of the Cross corporation…
What is going on here? Murray never told us about any of this, did he?
Around the time of the early 80’s it was time to for Murray to go mainstream with his Christian Identity doctrine… the rough racist edges of his white supremacist doctrine had to be smoothed out.
Have you ever wondered how Murray so early on could afford the satellite he commonly boasted about? I think now we can understand where the money came from to launch the Chapel into the limelight.
Goff and Gillaspie borrowed heavily from bigoted Mormon theology – this might explain why the Chapel teaching so closely parallels key tenets within Mormonism. They were obsessed with freemasonry and Pyramidology…
Murray has a book on his list to deal with Pyramidology. The book he offers is by E. Raymond Capt whose father was a high ranking clansman… birds of a feather flock together.
This is from Arnold Murray, answering his critics:
“I have never claimed to have received a doctorate from Roy Gillaspie. I do not know where some of these “researchers” came up with this. Roy Gillaspie was simply a beloved teacher of God’s Word and I have never said or implied any such thing. It is true that I have a policy of not publicly stating where I earned my doctorate because then “critics” cannot judge me by association (why would the do that? Oh, yeah, because of Goff). I have always publicly stated that my credentials are my ability to teach God’s Word. To the extent that our Heavenly Father blesses me with the ability to clearly teach His Word then what higher ordination could there be?” – Arnold Murray, answer to critics
God didn’t ordain Murray to teach the garbage that he did… what a load of religious bat guano!
Of course, Roy Gillaspie was the head pastor of the church you served under and you didn’t technically receive it from him but let me tell you what Murray doesn’t want to say: Kenneth Goff of the Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute issued the doctorate. Charlatans like to create the air of authority around themselves and ascribe titles to themselves like “Doctor”. Murray was a Doctor of lies, false religion and disinformation – he received his doctorate from hateful bigots who had no validity from the get go.
I have much more to say about these matters and the Christian Identity Movement but let this information sink in if you’re a chapel follower! Murray’s Connection to White Supremacist’s Gillaspie & Goff
Like I said, even Wikipedia won’t allow that unsubstantiated stuff on their website.