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:''And It places it right there that '''Jesus is not God'''. See? I’ll tell you: I believe calling Jesus ‘Deity’, which we’ve had people here do that, is an entire misunderstanding or no understanding of Seed: that God is the Father, the Progenitor, the Author, the All in all of a race of His Own children, genetically, legitimately, spiritually, physically, every single way. God is not our Creator; He is our Father; He is our Source; He is our Progenitor. Call it what you want. Out of the Great Fountain, God, came every one of His sons, and nothing else came from that Lifeline, because the Bible says, “In him was life.”<ref>Lee Vayle, Godhead #14: The Man, Jesus Christ, Is Not Deity, August 6, 2000</ref> | :''And It places it right there that '''Jesus is not God'''. See? I’ll tell you: I believe calling Jesus ‘Deity’, which we’ve had people here do that, is an entire misunderstanding or no understanding of Seed: that God is the Father, the Progenitor, the Author, the All in all of a race of His Own children, genetically, legitimately, spiritually, physically, every single way. God is not our Creator; He is our Father; He is our Source; He is our Progenitor. Call it what you want. Out of the Great Fountain, God, came every one of His sons, and nothing else came from that Lifeline, because the Bible says, “In him was life.”<ref>Lee Vayle, Godhead #14: The Man, Jesus Christ, Is Not Deity, August 6, 2000</ref> | ||
=Quotes of William Branham= | |||
The following quotes are from 1964, after William Branham had rejected the doctrine of the Trinity. He clearly speaks of Jesus as a created being: | |||
:''This, just the display, now it shows what’s being done. Like God becoming God when He created Angels. '''He become Son when He created Christ Jesus.''' He become Saviour when Jesus died. He becomes Healer when “He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were healed.” See?<ref>William Branham, 64-0304 - Sirs, We Would See Jesus, para. 15</ref> | |||
God was not God the Father until he created Jesus: | |||
:''But in this great God, Elohim, was attributes. There was attributes in there to be God; '''attributes to be Father;''' attributes to be Son; attributes to be Saviour; attributes to be healer. All these attributes was in God. And if you’ve ever got Eternal Life, you were in God’s attributes, because you got Eternal Life. Jesus came as Redeemer. And redeem means “bring it back to where it started from.” Right. You were in God’s thinking. He might have to breed this with that, and down here and down here.<ref>William Branham, 64-0401 - The Identified Christ Of All Ages</ref> | |||
:''There is no three or four Gods. There is only one God. There is three attributes of God; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but they’re not three Gods. That’s heathen. See, there is only one God. And that’s attributes. God the Father was in the wilderness, as a Pillar of Fire. All right. God the Son; God the Father created the body which was God the Son, and lived in the Son. See? “God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.” Do you believe that? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] If you’re a Christian, you believe it. And, then, “A little while and the world seeth Me no more.” And now look, Jesus said, “I came from God, and I return to God.” After His death, burial, resurrection, He ascended up.<ref>William Branham, 64-0412 - A Court Trial, para. 257</ref> | |||
Jesus did not exist until he was created by the Father and at that moment God became God the Father: | |||
:''And God could not take a human’s place, being He is Spirit. So God created a Blood cell, which was His own Son, Jesus Christ. And God came in and lived in there, and lived, identified Himself in Christ. That was God, Emmanuel. Jesus said, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me.” See? “God in Christ, reconciling the world.” Jesus was the body, the tabernacle, God was the Spirit that lived in Him.<ref>William Branham, 64-0418B - A Paradox, para. 162</ref> | |||
William Branham taught that because Jesus was created, he did not exist prior to his creation and he was not the eternal Son of God: | |||
:''Therefore, I’d like to ask the question. How could we ever make sense out of the word of “the Eternal sonship of God”? '''If He was a Son, He had a beginning. If He was Eternal Son, how could He be a Son and be Eternal?''' For, son is—is a product of something. But, if He was—He was, could not be an Eternal Son. There’s no such a thing, “Eternal Son of God.” Cause, if He—if He never had a beginning, then He cannot be nothing but Eternal. But, if He was a Son, He had a beginning, so He cannot be an Eternal Son.<ref>William Branham, 62-0401 - Wisdom Versus Faith, para. 88</ref> | |||
:''Talk about eternal sonship. '''Son has a beginning.''' Eternal can’t start, can’t begin. And there… It always has been. How can it be an eternal son? Oh, my. How you… I’m a dummy, and I know better than that. Sure.<ref>William Branham, 62-0407 - The Signs Of His Coming, para. 54</ref> | |||
:''A Son, as the Catholic puts it, “Eternal Son,” and all the rest of the churches; the word don’t even make sense. See? '''There cannot be Eternal, and then be a Son, ’cause a Son is something that’s “begotten from.”''' And the word Eternal, He cannot be an Eter-…He can be a Son, but He cannot be an Eternal Son. No, sir. It cannot be an Eternal Son.<ref>William Branham, 65-0822M - Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word, para. 53</ref> | |||
:''People talk about Jesus being the Eternal Son of God. Now isn’t that a contradiction? '''Whoever heard of a “Son” being eternal? Sons have beginnings''', but that which is eternal never had a beginning.<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter 1 - The Revelation Of Jesus Christ</ref> | |||
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