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The predominant response from those in [[The Message|the message]] is one filled with fear. Some feel that those that bring to light William Branham's many failings have unnecessarily put their eternal destination on the line. They point their fingers and say, "What if you're wrong?" | |||
The underlying emotion is that of fear. It is interesting that in virtually all of the emails that we have received from message believers, fear is what they try to use to persuade us not to say anything. | |||
=The opposite of fear= | |||
The opposite of fear is love. Why? 1 John 4:18–19 states, | |||
:''There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. (ESV) | |||
But we have had a rare few that contacted us in the spirit of love. One couple were convinced that the conclusions of our research were wrong, so they left the ninety and nine and came after us. They spent over 400 hours researching. They were afraid for us spiritually and that concern led them to a labor of love focused on rescuing us. | |||
I told them that I had no desire to be wrong and that if they could prove the conclusions on our website to be wrong, we would publish that research. | |||
You can see the research for yourself on their website, [[Searching for Vindication]]. | |||
Those in the message believe that the capstone of love is coming down on the virtue of brotherly kindness to complete the Bride. Sadly, what I have found after leaving the message is that the conduct of message believers toward those that have left is, for the most part, lacking in both | |||
=Some have accused us of mocking William Branham= | =Some have accused us of mocking William Branham= | ||