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William Branham even said that if he told a person "thus saith the Lord" that they would be healed and they didn't have faith, they wouldn't be healed: | William Branham even said that if he told a person "thus saith the Lord" that they would be healed and they didn't have faith, they wouldn't be healed: | ||
:''But, no matter, if my word was absolutely THUS SAITH THE LORD, and you would disbelieve It, you'd die, anyhow. Certainly. Here is THUS SAITH THE LORD, and many of them receive It and die. Many of them go to hell, when, THUS SAITH THE LORD, "You don't have to." Is that right? ...See? It's what… '''It's all based on your faith'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2, para. 267</ref> | :''But, no matter, '''if my word was absolutely THUS SAITH THE LORD, and you would disbelieve It, you'd die, anyhow'''. Certainly. '''Here is THUS SAITH THE LORD, and many of them receive It and die.''' Many of them go to hell, when, THUS SAITH THE LORD, "You don't have to." Is that right? ...See? It's what… '''It's all based on your faith'''.<ref>William Branham, 57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2, para. 267</ref> | ||
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In stating that people can lose their healing after he has pronounced them healed. William Branham appears to be providing an excuse for people that were never healed by God in the first place. This was a common ploy used by healing evangelists as related by Walter Hollenweger, a noted Pentecostal historian who worked as translator for Branham in one of his campaigns in Switzerland, who wrote of William Branham: | |||
:''He possessed an extraordinary diagnostic gift and could identify the illnesses (sometimes even the names) of persons he had never seen. Unfortunately '''his healing prognosis was accurate only in rare cases'''. '''The excuse of healing evangelists in such cases has always been: The patient did not really believe; for they were convinced that faith leads automatically to health.'''<ref>Hollenweger, Walter J. (1997). Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0801046605.</ref> | :''He possessed an extraordinary diagnostic gift and could identify the illnesses (sometimes even the names) of persons he had never seen. Unfortunately '''his healing prognosis was accurate only in rare cases'''. '''The excuse of healing evangelists in such cases has always been: The patient did not really believe; for they were convinced that faith leads automatically to health.'''<ref>Hollenweger, Walter J. (1997). Pentecostalism: Origins and Developments Worldwide. Baker Academic. ISBN 978-0801046605.</ref> | ||
William Branham's views on this issue cannot be substantiated in scripture. | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||