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==What William Branham said== | ==What William Branham said== | ||
[[Image:Debate.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Proof of a lie - photograph of Rev. Best pointing his finger at F.F. Bosworth]] | |||
William Branham said that '''God would not allow a picture to be developed''' of Rev. Best pointing his finger at F.F. Bosworth | William Branham said that '''God would not allow a picture to be developed''' of Rev. Best pointing his finger at F.F. Bosworth | ||
[[Houston debate article|Click here to read a copy of the January 24th, 1950 issue of The Houston Press.]] | |||
:''I seen him the night of the debate when this Angel of the Lord came down and had His picture taken that you see here now, they got of the meeting. It was Brother Bosworth who stood there that night, and this young fellow just out of the seminary, pointing his finger in that old saints face, and having him take his picture like this. And he shaking his fist in that old saintly man's face, and saying, "Now, take my picture. And now take my picture," like that. 'Cause he wanted six pictures taken; he could publish it in his paper in such positions as that. '''And Almighty God would not permit one of them to be developed.''' Every one of them was perfect negative. That's right.'' (Chicago, July 20, 1954) | :''I seen him the night of the debate when this Angel of the Lord came down and had His picture taken that you see here now, they got of the meeting. It was Brother Bosworth who stood there that night, and this young fellow just out of the seminary, pointing his finger in that old saints face, and having him take his picture like this. And he shaking his fist in that old saintly man's face, and saying, "Now, take my picture. And now take my picture," like that. 'Cause he wanted six pictures taken; he could publish it in his paper in such positions as that. '''And Almighty God would not permit one of them to be developed.''' Every one of them was perfect negative. That's right.'' (Chicago, July 20, 1954) | ||
:''So then when he pulled the first picture out of Mr. Best with Mr. Bosworth, it was negative. '''God wouldn’t permit that taken against that saintly old man.''' He pulled out the next one: negative. He pulled out all six of them, and every one of them was blank. And when he pulled out the other one, there was the Angel of God on the picture. He had a heart attack.<ref> William Branham, 53-1129E - Testimony, para. 34</ref> | |||
'''William Branham also said that it was George J. Lacy who first called it a supernatural light''' | '''William Branham also said that it was George J. Lacy who first called it a supernatural light''' | ||
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There are some specific facts that do not agree with William Branham's version of the events: | There are some specific facts that do not agree with William Branham's version of the events: | ||
#'''God did allow''' developing of the picture of Rev. Best pointing his finger at F.F. Bosworth. In fact, it was published in the newspaper as shown above on the right. | #'''God did allow''' developing of the picture of Rev. Best pointing his finger at F.F. Bosworth. In fact, it was published in the newspaper as shown above on the right. This is proof that William Branham was not being honest. | ||
#There is '''no record''' of George Lacy ever referring to the photograph as supernatural. | #There is '''no record''' of George Lacy ever referring to the photograph as supernatural. | ||
#The '''FBI were never involved''' in the examination of the photograph. | #The '''FBI were never involved''' in the examination of the photograph. | ||
#The picture '''never hung in the Hall of Religious Art''' in Washington, D.C. In fact, the Hall of Religious Art appears to be a figment of William Branham | #The picture '''never hung in the Hall of Religious Art''' in Washington, D.C. In fact, the Hall of Religious Art appears to be a figment of William Branham's imagination. | ||
==Scepticism== | ==Scepticism== | ||
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===The Light Struck the Lens=== | ===The Light Struck the Lens=== | ||
If, as George J. Lacy confirmed in his report on the photograph that light struck the negative, then it is hard to understand how no one else in the auditorium saw the light above William Branham's head. But [[File:ED SULLIVAN floodlights.png|left|Another example of floodlights]]if the light was, in fact, a bank of floodlights then light did pass through the lens and did strike the negative. Was the actual reason that no one noticed the "pillar of fire" was that they all saw it for what it really was - one of the flood lights in the Sam Houston Coliseum | If, as George J. Lacy confirmed in his report on the photograph that light struck the negative, then it is hard to understand how no one else in the auditorium saw the light above William Branham's head. But [[File:ED SULLIVAN floodlights.png|left|Another example of floodlights]]if the light was, in fact, a bank of floodlights then light did pass through the lens and did strike the negative. Was the actual reason that no one noticed the "pillar of fire" was that they all saw it for what it really was - one of the flood lights in the Sam Houston Coliseum? | ||
If the "pillar of fire" was an actual light source above William Branham's head that showed up on the negative, why doesn't the photo look more like the edited version the right? | If the "pillar of fire" was an actual light source above William Branham's head that showed up on the negative, why doesn't the photo look more like the edited version the right? | ||
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==Report by George J. Lacy== | ==Report by George J. Lacy== | ||
[[Image:George_Lacy_Doc2.jpg| | [[Image:George_Lacy_Doc2.jpg|right|250px|Report by George J. Lacy]] | ||
After conferring with William Branham, Gordon Lindsay arranged for the negative to be turned over to George Lacy to examine the negative. | After conferring with William Branham, Gordon Lindsay arranged for the negative to be turned over to George Lacy to examine the negative. | ||
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The problem with William Branham's statement is that there is no '''Hall of Religious Art''' in Washington, D.C. There is a copy of the picture that someone sent to the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation. But the photo does not hang on the wall and there is no caption underneath it. Rather, it sits in a filing cabinet. We have personally been to the Library of Congress and have seen the photo in the file folder. It was never hanging on the wall but remains in a filing cabinet.<ref>[http://catalog.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Online Catalog]</ref> | The problem with William Branham's statement is that there is no '''Hall of Religious Art''' in Washington, D.C. There is a copy of the picture that someone sent to the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation. But the photo does not hang on the wall and there is no caption underneath it. Rather, it sits in a filing cabinet. We have personally been to the Library of Congress and have seen the photo in the file folder. It was never hanging on the wall but remains in a filing cabinet.<ref>[http://catalog.loc.gov/ Library of Congress Online Catalog]</ref> | ||
It appears that at some point in time, William Branham became aware that the "Religious Hall of Religious History" (yes, it kept changing) was not in existence and the picture was not there. Rather than admit that he was wrong, William Branham made up a story that the picture had been moved to Germany: | |||
:''As you all have seen, the Light (which the United States has copyrighted in the Washington, DC, hanging in the Religious Hall of—of religious history, in Washington, DC) is the only supernatural Being that was ever photographed in all the world. Hangs in the halls of Germany where they've taken it." <ref>61-0519, Sirs, We Would See Jesus, para. 94</ref> | |||
And where are the "halls of Germany". Something else that William Branham invented? | |||
However, there are a number of fake photographs that have been photoshopped to indicate that they were taken in the "Hall of Religious Art" but they are simply the invention of message believers that would rather create a lie than admit they are wrong. You can [[Games that message people play|see an example of one of the fake pictures here]]. | |||
==William Branham's comments about George Lacy== | ==William Branham's comments about George Lacy== | ||
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