Editor's note: This article contains graphic depictions of violence. 

Adam Sheafe, the suspect in the gruesome murder of an Arizona pastor, says he believes it was merely an execution according to the Law of Moses in the Old Testament. 

In a chilling interview with Arizona Family's Briana Whitney, Sheafe, 51, says he crucified Pastor Bill Schonemann of New River Bible Chapel against a wall and placed a crown of thorns on his head and that he also planned to kill a total of 14 pastors or priests nationwide, who he claims are leading their flocks astray by claiming that "Jesus is God's only son."

Sheafe's jailhouse interview made numerous references to God, the Bible and other aspects of his religious beliefs. Here are five of his most disturbing comments from that interview.

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1. Chose his victim for 'breaking the first commandment'

Sheafe said he was on a divine mission to execute more than a dozen pastors and priests in what he said was an act of obedience to the first of the Ten Commandments: "You shall have no other gods before me."

"Yahava alone is God," he said, using a pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton. "It's the first commandment; it's the most important commandment of them all." When asked what specifically led him to kill Schonemann, he later said, "There's a commandment that if somebody is preaching that somebody other than God is God, we are to execute them and rid evil of Israel, so I'm obeying that commandment."

After admitting to the murder, he acknowledged that he had no previous contact with the 76-year-old Schonemann and that Sheafe's "only criteria" used to determine his victim was "breaking the first commandment."

"There's nothing worse than breaking the first commandment," he added. "You replace who my daddy is, I'm going to nail you to the wall."

"That's brutal," replied Whitney.

"Well, life is brutal," Sheafe shot back. "Satan is brutal."