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A Polite Inquiry Regarding My Version of the Song of Moses and the Interview I Gave to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Question/Comment:

My First Response:

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Stringini

To:  Name Withheld

Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:33 PM

Subject: Re: Oracles of God

Hi,

In 2008 I did a new recording or the song of Moses, you can still download the old version of the Song of Moses on my website though this link http://oraclesofgod.org/songs/128k/Like_a_Hammer/The_Song_of_Moses_1996.mp3 

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Stringini

Emailer's First Reply:

----- Original Message -----

From: Name Withheld

To: Paul Stringini

Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 7:23 PM

Subject: Re: Oracles of God

Thank you for the information.  I suppose then it could have been your song version that I had listened to so often way back when.  I really enjoyed it and almost had it memorized. 

I am curious though about an interview I saw with the Southern Poverty Law or something like that, naming you as a critic attacking Pastor Murray.  Did you know this organization was mentioning your name?  Were they misquoting your name as a critic?  I never like to assume things I hear 2nd hand and am very much up front and go to the source.  

I really wanted to ask you about this in my original email however I thought a friendlier introduction to our communication was more appropriate.  I can see how you  might derive a different conclusion.

I am not trying to have a debate or judge anyone.  Lastly,  I really don't have an ulterior motive other than to understand the facts.

Best,

Name Withheld

My Second Response:

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Stringini

To: Name Withheld

Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 11:43 AM

Subject: Re: Oracles of God

Hi Again,

 

Did you know this organization was mentioning your name?  

 

Yes, I have some regrets about that interview.  

 

Were they misquoting your name as a critic?  

 

When Dr. Murray refers to "higher critics" he is referring to these people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_criticism I'm not a "higher critic." 

 

I stopped listening to Dr. Murray in the late nineties because I became disillusioned about his teachings based on some things I was finding in the bible as I "studied for myself" as he had taught me.  In 2005 I received the baptism of the holy spirit with power (yes, and tongues) and the scriptures were opened to me literally in an instant.  It was about a year or two later that I felt led of the spirit to write about my experience with the Shepherd's Chapel and to talk about the things that I thought were false doctrine.  (I wrote about this on my Shepherd's Chapel webpage).

 

I never like to assume things I hear 2nd hand and am very much up front and go to the source.  

 

I really appreciate that.  I get a lot of hate mail.  Believe it or not, most Chapel people do not look at me as some poor misguided fool or with pity.  I pretty much get my fill of hostility and insult from most other students of the chapel, frankly.

 

I really wanted to ask you about this in my original email however I thought a friendlier introduction to our communication was more appropriate.  I can see how you  might derive a different conclusion.

 

I really do appreciate that, it is obvious you did not stumble on my Shepherd's Chapel page yet, some people do, and they write me before they have a look around and they just start right in insulting me and getting the wrong idea about things.  It is alright, I'm a big boy, but I still appreciate someone who simply asks. 

 

I am not trying to have a debate or judge anyone.  Lastly,  I really don't have an ulterior motive other than to understand the facts.

 

I have my fill of debate, I keep saying to my wife that I should quit, but I don't think I can... anyway this is my shepherd's chapel page, it will tell my whole story and you can also see the emails I've been getting "discussing" the topics. http://oraclesofgod.org/shepherds_chapel.htm

 

Sincerely

Paul Stringini

Emailer's Second Reply:

----- Original Message -----

From: Name Withheld

To: Paul Stringini

Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:11 AM

Subject: Re: Oracles of God

Hi Paul,

I read your Shepherd's Chapel page...that was long, it took me a while!  I can see that you have put a lot of thought into your work and did not just randomly throw things in there for the sake of fluffing your own story.  

Honestly, the biggest overwhelming feeling I get is sadness.  One spends their entire life searching for truth but there is always another truth out there and it makes Christianity so difficult to understand.  I can see why a musician, I think it was Jesus Freak, prior to the start of one of their songs said something along the lines of Christianity being a leading cause for atheism.

I did read the entire page and was waiting to read something about the churches, particularly Smyrna and Philadelphia.  

Best,

Name Withheld

My Third Response:

----- Original Message -----

From: Paul Stringini

To: Name Withheld

Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 11:38 AM

Subject: Re: Oracles of God

Hi Name Withheld,

 

Thanks for taking the time to read my story without prejudice.  I had to comment on two things you said, If you do not feel like responding I will understand.

 

Concerning Smyrna and Philadelphia.  This will probably add to your sadness, but I think it is the truth and I tell it to you because I am a debtor to the truth.  I write about it in my responses to emails (which are many).  The synagogue of Satan are those who say they are Jews and are not.  Dr. Murray claims to be of Israel, a Jew, but he is not a Jew, he is an Irishman, and also a minister of the synagogue of Satan for his false claim.  Anglo Israelism, Christian identity, is the Synagogue of Satan. I do teach who the synagogue of Satan is. 

 

The sword indeed cuts both ways, I don't know anyone else who teaches this, and it wasn't taught me.  And even if you disagree, you should understand that it has to be one or the other.  The Anglo-Israel movement is lying, they are the synagogue of Satan, not the true Jews. 

Jesus and his Apostles themselves affirmed that the people he lived among were Israel, the Jews are true Israel.  Also, the whole world calls them Jews and has called them Jews for 2000 years.  What I mean is that it is not only the Jews who do call themselves Jews, but the whole world, all of history, and Jesus Christ himself and the Apostles all affirm that the Jews are the Jews. The ones who are lying are these former barbarian, non-Jews who falsely claim to be the lost 12 tribes. They are the ones who "say they are Jews."  The Jews do not say they are Jews, the whole world, history, and Christ himself say it.

 

The children of the devil are described in 1 John 3:10 "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother."  It is not about race, and it never was.  All this race consciousness is anti-Christian.  The Christian Identity movement is the synagogue of Satan and many of its members are violent men.  Do some research on Christian Identity, it is the faith of skinheads and white supremacists everywhere.  They are not descended from Cain by blood but many of them have replicated his violence and hatred.

 

Even so, Pastor Murray is misusing the scriptures.  The Lord does not say of the two Churches "They teach who the synagogue of Satan is"  All it says is that he knows their blasphemy.  He is implying that those churches have to deal with the blasphemy of the synagogue of Satan.   And at times I do feel like I know what that is all about.  Many of the people who write me are nothing like you, many of them speak very foolishly.  Even blasphemously.

 

Christianity being a leading cause for atheism

 

God would be the leading cause of Atheism.   God makes atheists.   These modern people do not understand.  I preach the gospel to kill and to make alive.  To make stumble and to set right.  In their ignorance, they sculpt their words to be pleasing to every ear and corrupt the word of God.  But not every ear can be pleased. The word of God will make Christians and Atheists.  And the IGNORANT Christian blames the message for the Atheists.  As if the message is supposed to please every ear.  What darkness!

 

2Cor 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life.

 

If the truth makes men perish, God smells a sweet savor.

 

And to God it is sweet. BOTH are sweet. Let that sink in.

 

One of the reasons there is so much confusion is because everyone out there are crafting messages that make sense to them (And Pastor Murray is no exception)  They speak wisdom that pleases some men or the others, and use that wisdom to corrupt the word of God (Pastor Murray calls it "common sense"  I call it "the wisdom of man"  because that is what it is).  Others call it "seeker sensitive" or whatever else. Pastor Murray does not please everyone, but he creates an explanation of the bible that pleases him and some people naturally see the elegance of his explanation.  But an elegant explanation does not make truth, nor does it excuse his mishandling of the word.

 

They come at the Bible and try to force it to "make sense."  And the biggest revelation for me came when I started realizing that my preconceived ideas were forcing me into contorted explanations of the scriptures.  When I let go of my Shepherd's Chapel conditioning, and submitted myself to what the bible said, instead of bending the bible to my ideas (as Pastor Murray does) everything came together for me.  What makes the bible hard to understand is that people do not want to believe what the bible says, so they look for some other explanation, heaping to themselves teachers.  Case in point:

 

Prov 16:4  The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

 

I wonder what Jesus freak would think about that scripture?  God made the wicked, for the day of evil.  This is not the only place that says so.  Men do not like God's ways so they offer some other explanation that they find acceptable. 

 

Remember the parable of the workers in the vineyard?

 

Matt 20:12 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 13 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
14 Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

 

The message is simple: in the eyes of man, God is not fair.  In this parable, God is not fair to all, God is fair to some and God is more than fair to others.  Men resent  the fact that God is "more than fair" to some and "only fair" to others.  They are jealous, and angry at God for being more kind to his elect than to the rest.  But what answers God?  "I can do what I want with what belongs to me, you are the evil ones.(v15)"   Listen to my line by line bible study on Matt 20 http://oraclesofgod.org/studies/40_Matthew/Matthew.html

 

The thing is, that in life people do not realize that they have already received their "penny" and whatever they get out of life is more than they deserve.  What would be fair in life is for God to destroy us all.  But God does not deal fairly with all.  Some get fair treatment (wrath) and others get gracious treatment.  And man HATES it. But this is the truth.

 

My supreme confidence  is in God.  I put my trust in him.  The fact that so few hear me does not make me sad.  I rejoice in them that perish and I rejoice in them that are saved, because God is ruler over all.  I really trust him. 

 

Sincerely,

Paul Stringini

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