“I had not been listening to him for a long time, rather several times over the course of a few days...his programming ran for six hours a nite, so I got to hear a bit of what he had to say...”
From your posting history, I was under the impression that he was very important to you and that you had been following him for at least a year from your July 2006 post.
Yep, July 2006 would be about correct....I dont consider it a ‘long’ time from then till now, it is between a year and half, and two years, hardly what I would call a long time...it is just a difference of views I would guess...
No, Murray is not important to me, of no more importance than any other TV preacher...I watch them all, and have been watching a lot of them, for what I would call a ‘long’ time, 10/20 years....
Murray does have a unique and different viewpoint about Biblical Scriptures, and he obviously fills a void for many people who view ‘traditional’ Christian churches as lacking in answering some of their questions...his viewpoint is different and unique, viewpoints I have never heard before...after I started watching him, I noted that there were some posters here on FR, who seemed to embrace his teachings....especially the one about the Adam and the Eve being created on what Murray calls the 8th day of creation, and I have seen that view posted right here, on FR as well...I was struck that Murrays influence had shown itself right here on FR....
But as far as being important to me, perhaps important, only in that he shows, as a glaring example, how one can take Scriptures, and come out with an understanding that is completely outside of mainstream Christianity...I believe ‘important’ is the incorrect word to use here...’interesting’ would be the word I would use to describe how I feel about Murray....this is same as I feel about Benny Hinn, Jim Whitington, Jan and Paul Crouch, Oral and Richard Roberts, Rod Parsley, Ernest Angley, Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, the Pope, and other religious preachers, leaders, and teachers, who use the TV airwaves...I watch them all, and find them all interesting, for many different reasons....
Arnold Murray is only the last and latest one that I have been viewing, so in all my years of watching these various religious teachers and leaders, my viewing time of Arnold Murray has been extremely short, and not ‘important’, merely interesting...