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=What is False Doctrine?=
=What is False Doctrine?=


False doctrine is always:
False doctrine is:


#Plausible
#Plausible.  If false doctrines didn't hold together at all, they would never be accepted.
#Based on scripture.
#Based on scripture. No one would follow a false doctrine, if it didn't have some basis in the Bible.
#Divisive, creating disunity. <ref>R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1963), 752.</ref>
#Self-centred and self-serving.  False teachers boast much about love to God, but they wholly fail under the test of love to men.<ref>Robert Tuck, I & II Peter, I, II & III John, Jude, Revelation, The Preacher’s Complete Homiletic Commentary (New York; London; Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1892), 315.</ref>
#usually reductionist in nature.  The greatest heresies do not come about by straightforward denial... They happen when an element which may even be important, but isn’t central, looms so large that people can’t help talking about it, fixating on it, debating different views of it as though this were the only thing that mattered.<ref>Tom Wright, Acts for Everyone, Part 2: Chapters 13-28 (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2008), 137–138.</ref>


=An analysis of the false doctrines propagated by William Branham and his followers=
=An analysis of the false doctrines propagated by William Branham and his followers=