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The Shepherd's Chapel
Arnold Murray

On Cults

Arnold Murray’s Shepherd Chapel is headquartered in Gravette Arkansas.

Teachings:
  1. Non-Trinitarian, more of a modelist (like Oneness Pentecostals)
  2. Human spirits exist prior to birth. (pre-existence) (like Mormonism)
  3. Jesus was raised spiritually, not physically (like Jehovah's Witnesses)
  4. Denies the physical resurrection of the believer (like Christian Science)
  5. Teaches the Serpent Seed Doctrine (like William Branham)
  6. The Jews are the offspring of the serpent (like Branham, the KKK)
  7. Teaches British Israelism
  8. The sin of Adam and eve was not eating fruit but sex. (like Sung Myung Moon)
  9. There was no 7 day creation and the earth is millions of years old
  10. Teaches that the doctrine of the Rapture is cultic.
  11. Teaches the KJV Only doctrine
  12. Murray emphasizes Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus, and Biblical numerics.
  13. Murray prophesied falsely the date of the appearance of the Antichrist would be 1981
     
References:
1. The Shepherd's Chapel Question and Answers period, aired 6/4/91
5. Tape #436 -  see also William Branham's work "An Exposition of The Seven Church Ages"
6. Commentary in The Shepherd's Bible, Gravette, Ar: Shepherd's Chapel, 1979 quoted by Jason Barker profile -Watchman Fellowship
10. Newsletter #253 Nov. 1999

 


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