Arnold Murray
Arnold Benjamin Murray was ordained to the Office of Minister ‘agreeable to the laws governing ordination in the Soldiers of the Cross..’ by Roy E. Gillaspie, D.Th. of Bellflower, California on April 30th, 1958. Assisting were John Alvin Lovell, D.D. of Dallas, Texas and Oliver Kenneth Goff, D.D. of Soldiers of the Cross, Englewood, Colorado.
Murray established the Church of Jesus Christ in Gravette, Arkansas, one of the independent churches of this name also pastored by Swift, Gillaspie, Smith, Butler, Robb and Jandebeur. Goff became the national chairman for the Church of Jesus Christ group in the 1960’s. In 1991 Murray changed the name of his church to Shepherd’s Chapel, but has to date retained the corporate identity of Soldiers of the Cross.
In 1978 Murray and Leeland Jandebeur collaborated to write the Shepherd’s Bible, a Kingdom Identity edition of the King James with commentary by Murray. It was in the form of loose leaf pages contained in a binder whereby the reader could add additional books of the bible as they were completed. It never was.
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God gave us a will. We make our own choice. If you choose not the accept Jesus as Lord (boss) and what He did on the cross for you, it’s not God who sends you to hell, that’s what you chose by rejecting His gift of salvation. If you choose to accept Jesus as Lord then your sins are under the blood, sins forgiven and you will go to Heaven. I choose Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and what He did on the cross for me. It is my prayer that you have or will do the same. Living for Him is truly living!
The worm that dieth not is a maggot. It does not die but becomes a fly.
Rebutting Lorna Young teaching of Hellfire
I read hellfire as a punishment for the wicked a little different than Lorna Young who thinks “How could a God of love possibly through his creatures into a lake of fire.” I will bet this is the same thing Satan said when God sentenced him and his fallen angles to the lake of fire.
Take a look at what happens when Christ returns at the end of the tribulation (Rev 19:20). And the Beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Now these two were human beings or wicked ones, people not fallen angles. Now let’s go forward to the end of the Millennium a thousand years later where God is casting Satan into the lake of fire (Rev 20:10) And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
You will notice that the beast and the false prophet and still there a thousand years later still burning in the brimstone. If they burned up and no longer existed then why are they still there? Take a look at (Mark 9 43:44) And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, then having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched:
How can we have a God of love and a God that can cast his creatures into a lake of fire? Lorna is looking at God only through one of his characteristics (love) while ignoring two other characteristics (absolute righteousness and justice). We as human beings have to first come to the cross of Jesus Christ to appropriate the love of God. He who believes in the Son has eternal life: but he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. (John 3:36).
When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, in that moment God does 36 things for us. I will just mention a few : Born of the Spirit (John 3: 5-8), Baptized with the Spirit (Acts 1:5; 1Cor. 12:13); Indwelt by the Spirit. (John 7:39; Rom 5:5; 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16; 6:19; Gal. 4:6; 1 John 3:24) The believer is made acceptable to God (Eph. 1:6; 1 Pet. 2:5; He is made righteous by imputation (Rom. 3:22; 1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Cor. 5:21; This means that God has imputed or has given us the righteousness of his Son. The Holy Spirit also bring us into union with Christ.
God’s righteousness and Justice they guard His integrity. Whatever His righteousness accepts His Justice has to bless, whatever His righteousness rejects His justice has to judge. When God looks at a believer all he sees is the righteousness of Jesus Christ that He imputed to us at salvation and his righteousness is satisfied (with the work Christ did on the cross) His justice is now free to bless us and we become the reacceptance of his boundless love. Then He is truly a God of love.
Look at the unbeliever or as Lorna Young put it the wicked and remember that God cannot do anything that is incompatible with his character. God’s righteousness cannot have anything to do with sin so it rejects them and then His justice can only judge them. Now we see a Sovereign Holy Righteous Judge that can and will cast all the peoples of the earth that refused to accept the work He did for them when He sent His only into the world to became a human being and to die on the cross that they might be saved.
God can be a God of love and at the same time be a righteous God and still not compromise his integrity.
Hey there, i just wanted to clear a few things up for anyone who is confused still.
Jesus did die and resurrect from death, but not until after he visited those who died before He came.This was to give them a chance also to repent to our Savior.All those before Jesus birth who died in sin.
As for eternal Hellfire, it will actually be a blotting out of all existence,from the creation of God’s children to His return.You see God would never allow those who enter Heaven to have to sit there and watch those who didn’t make it to eternal life roast in a lake of fire for eternity.Those who do not make it will simply be just blotted out.Never existed,never born through woman,no memories at all of them.My friend’s that is called death of the mortal soul
Fear not what man can do to your flesh, but fear God that can kill flesh and your soul
God creates He can also un-create.
What is the Lake of Fire then? What is it for? Why did Jesus die on the cross if it wasn’t to help us avoid punishment?
Lorna, well said..i agree,
Examining the teaching of Hellfire
Is hellfire as a punishment for the wicked compatible with God’s personality? Would a loving God really torment people in a hell of fire for all eternity? Can you picture people roasting in fire for a million, a billion, a trillion, a quadrillion …years and many more, actually never ending? Would a loving God do such thing? The obvious answer is NO. Our Loving Almighty God will NEVER do a wicked thing. (Job 34:10, 12; 1 John 4:8) God will punish the wicked, but not in a hellfire. How was Adam, a once perfect man who sinned, punished? At Genesis 2:16,17, God stated that Adam’s punishment for disobedience would be death. What did death mean for Adam after he sinned? Genesis 3:19 shows that he returned to the dust from which he came. Before Adam was created, he was mere dust, lifeless, out of existence. Hence, when God says that Adam will return to dust, it meant that Adam was once again becoming lifeless, out of existence. Thus, Adam could not feel torment after he died as shown clearly at Genesis 3:19. Ecclesisastes 9:5,6 points out plainly that the dead are unconscious. They cannot feel pain or torment. God’s choice to mankind is either life or death. (Deuteronomy 30:19) NOT life or hellfire.
Actually, the thought of burning live humans in fire never came up into God’s mind. (Jeremiah 7:31; 32:35) Even in cases where the Scriptures speak of punishing disobedient ones by burning, such ones were not burned alive but were put to death first by stoning, then their dead bodies burned. (Joshua 7:15, 25)
What of “hellfire” mentioned in some translations, as the King James version, at Matthew 5:22 etc.? The Greek word translated “hellfire” is Gehenna. But the fact is Gehenna NEVER meant hellfire. Please consider the following information on Gehenna:
The Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna) was outside the walls of Jerusalem. In the first century Gehenna was being used as the incinerator for the filth of Jerusalem. Bodies of dead animals were thrown into the valley to be consumed in the fires, to which sulfur, or brimstone, was added to assist the burning. Also, bodies of executed criminals, who were considered undeserving of burial in a memorial tomb, were thrown into Gehenna. Thus, at Matthew 5:29, 30, Jesus spoke of the casting of one’s “whole body” into Gehenna. If the body fell into the constantly burning fire it was consumed, but if it landed on a ledge of the deep ravine its decaying flesh became infested with the ever-present worms. (Mark 9:47, 48) Living humans were not pitched into Gehenna; so it was not a place of conscious torment.
From the foregoing, it can be seen that Gehenna is used as a fitting symbol of complete, everlasting destruction or everlasting death for those whom God judges as wicked. So Gehenna does NOT mean hellfire. Hence, there really is NO Hellfire.
Best wishes,
Lorna