The earth is square
In 1965 William Branham said that the world was square, based on Rev. 7:1 and what he read in a newspaper article.
- You can't get accuracy in science now. Now, you know, sometime ago, they told us that the... that, "When the Bible said that 'he saw four Angels standing on the four corners of the earth,' that that couldn't be. The earth was round." But the Bible said, "four corners." Well, now you seen, two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, it's been now, the papers packing this article, they found out that the world is square. How many seen that? Why, sure. See? I got it all copied off, just waiting for somebody to say something.[1]
Why would someone teach this to their children?
In the past, we would have disregarded this as a "human error". However, Voice of God Recordings (VoG) teaches this to children as an "amazing and interesting fact" in the "Did you know?" blog on their website.
Our question is, why should someone listen to VoG when they teach about William Branham or how to get to heaven, if they can't be honest with facts?
Blockheads?
If you believe the world is square because the Bible says it has four corners, then how do you explain this passage of scripture?
- Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.[2]
Did people in the Old Testament have square heads?
The difference between a square and a cube
We can also forgive William Branham for being completely ignorant of three dimensional versus two dimensional geometry.
A square is two dimensional. What he probably meant was that the earth was cube and not a sphere.
This doesn't prove anything other than to debunk those message preachers that say that William Branham had a supernatural understanding of science. In this case, most children in junior high school would have a better understanding of geometry than William Branham.
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