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One would think that William Branham would have been very interested in the municipal bridge because of his vision, but he appears not to have been: | One would think that William Branham would have been very interested in the municipal bridge because of his vision, but he appears not to have been: | ||
:''That's the way a person that's been redeemed and understands it, you get emotionally. You can't help it when you're... The story was told that he could have--he could live because the perfect lamb died in his place, the little fellow could rejoice, under a... That's the way I felt the day that the story come to my heart. I... Knowing that I was a sinner, I couldn't even find a church that made an altar call. I went from one to the other. No one made an altar call; no one invited. '''They was all talking about flowers, and the new bridge that went across the river. And I--I wasn't interested in that. You read that in newspaper.''' I wanted to hear the Bible, the Word.'' 55-1119 REDEEMER.REDEMPTION_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA | :''That's the way a person that's been redeemed and understands it, you get emotionally. You can't help it when you're... The story was told that he could have--he could live because the perfect lamb died in his place, the little fellow could rejoice, under a... That's the way I felt the day that the story come to my heart. I... Knowing that I was a sinner, I couldn't even find a church that made an altar call. I went from one to the other. No one made an altar call; no one invited. '''They was all talking about flowers, and the new bridge that went across the river. And I--I wasn't interested in that. You read that in newspaper.''' I wanted to hear the Bible, the Word.'' 55-1119 REDEEMER.REDEMPTION_ SAN.FERNANDO.CA | ||
===Problem 6: Why did William Branham not tell the story in Jeffersonville until 1960=== | |||
We received the following question on our [http://www.facebook.com/BelieveTheSign discussion page] - "''If what the telling of the bridge is true, that there were not 16 victims, how about the local people living in that time? They must have known about the bridge, and why would Bro. Branham tell such story to the local people? They would know if he had made it up, he would be a bad liar''". | |||
Take a look at the quotes below. Is it just a bit curious that the first time he related the story in Jeffersonville was in 1960, over 30 years after the fact? | |||
30 years after the fact people may remember that there was a big accident on a bridge where a bunch of people died. But 30 years after the fact, they won't remember when it happened or even how many people died. | |||
But these people in Branham Tabernacle trusted William Branham. If they did have a bit of a question, would they easily be able to go back and look? Remember this was prior to Google. It would have been a fair amount of work, even if they had a bit of doubt, so they would have given William Branham the benefit of the doubt, because they trusted him implicitly. | |||
Please see the reference to the Big Four Bridge above. It is an interesting coincidence that 15+ years before William Branham was born, there was an accident in which a number of people were killed in a bridge accident one half mile upstream from the municipal bridge. It is likely that any locals might have thought he made a simple mistake and was referring to the wrong bridge. | |||
Also, the municipal bridge was renamed in 1949 to the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge. The local simply call it the Second Street Bridge. If you look at the "Generation" book by Angel Smith, you will notice that it doesn't appear that any one in that book lived in Jeffersonville in 1929. Those in the book that were locals (very few) were born after 1930 or would have been small children at the time. Also, it appears that a lot of the people in Branham Tabernacle had moved into the area to specifically be close to WMB and so would not have resided in Jeffersonville in 1929. | |||
So in 1960, 30 years after the fact, William Branham told the story and no one noticed. As that was the first time on record that he told it in Jeffersonville, it is really not surprising that no one would have questioned him on it. | |||
==Excuses for the failed vision brought on by [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]]== | ==Excuses for the failed vision brought on by [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]]== | ||