William Branham and the nature of God: Difference between revisions

:''Now notice! And after then the wise men identifying Him what He would be, and we find through the Scripture that's exactly what He was: Deity in service for death. What for? Deity in service to God for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death, to redeem the world. But what did the world do to It? They refused It. They rejected It. Why? Some of them, a big part of them, did that because this: because He did die! They said, "He couldn't be Deity and die." '''The Man (the body) was not Deity, but Deity was in the body'''. This body has to perish. The very Christ that's in you is the only thing that can raise you up. That's Deity, God in you.<ref>GOD'S.GIFTS.ALWAYS.FIND.THEIR.PLACES_  JEFF.IN  V-6 N-13  SUNDAY_  63-1222</ref>

When you distill everything down, it appears that William Branham taught a view of the Godhead that was most similar to that taught by '''Emmanual Swedenborg'''.  The '''New Church''' (as followers of Emmanual Swedenborg have branded themselves) make the following claim about the Godhead: