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| The following is a concise list of issues and problems that have been raised with respect to William Branham and his message.
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| The purpose of this list is to provide a short summary that can be used as a quick reference guide when discussing these issues. Our aim is to have a detailed explanation for each issue when you click on them. To the extent that the specific issue does not link to anything, it simply means we have not provided a detailed explanation as yet.
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| =Problems with Prophecies=
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| *[[The Municipal Bridge Vision]]
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| *[[The Brown Bear Vision]]
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| *[[The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa]]
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| *[[Heavenly Vision|His Commission by a Heavenly Vision]]'''
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| *[[Prophecy of the Cloud]]
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| *The Seven Visions of 1933
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| **[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
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| **[[Mussolini invades Ethiopia]]
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| **[[Hitler and WWII]]'''
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| **[[Russia and the three ...isms]]
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| **[[Driverless Cars]]
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| **[[Morality|The Morality of Women]]
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| **[[Rise of a Woman in America]]
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| **[[America in Ashes]]
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| *[[New Albany Prophecy]]
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| *[[Ohio River flood of 1937|Ohio river flood]]
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| *[[Pillar of Fire Explained|Star of light]]
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| *[[Kari Holma]]
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| *[[World Council of Churches]]
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| *[[Destruction of Los Angeles]]
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| *[[Florida under water]]
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| *[[Destruction of the Vatican]]
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| =General Credibililty Issues=
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| *[[Plagiarism]]
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| *[[The Cloud]]
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| *[[Rattlesnake Mesa]]
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| *[[Roy Davis|When did William Branham embrace Pentecostalism?]]
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| *[[Was William Branham Honest|The Explanation for His Poor Grammar]]
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| *[[1933 Ohio River Experience|The Voice on the Ohio River in 1933]]
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| *[[The Man from Windsor]]
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| *[[The Rock Where Moses Stood|God moved the rock that Moses stood on to the Arizona desert in 1964]]
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| =Doctrinal/Biblical Issues with William Branham's Message=
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| *[[Water baptism]]
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| *[[The Godhead]]
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| *[[The Serpent's Seed]]
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| *God only deals with one prophet at a time,
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| *Noah started building the ark after he saw Enoch go in a Rapture,
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| *Enoch was a type of the wise virgin, and Noah was a type of the foolish virgin,
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| *A seven letter word ending in “ham” is evidence of a spiritual man.
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| *Illegitimate children cannot be part of the rapture.
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| *"That which is perfect has come"
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| *The Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is believing the message
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| *One of the chief mysteries of the last days is to receive Holy Spirit without sensation
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| *Tithes goes to the ministers
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| *Can't use tithes to build a church
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| *God's three Bibles.
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| *For a person to be qualified for the ministry, they have to marry a virgin.
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| *Mixed Race Marriages.
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| *For a women to have long hair is not good enough; it must be uncut (i.e. no trimming of split ends).
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| *If your wife cuts her hair, you can divorce her. God doesn't even hear her prayer.
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| *[[Marriage and Divorce|A man can remarry after divorce but a woman can't]]
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| =Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message=
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| *[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
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| *The sun revolves around the earth
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| *Enoch built the Great Pyramid
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| *The Earth has four corners
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| ==Doctrinal/Biblical Issues Taught by Message Churches=
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| These doctrines were not specifically taught by William Branham (or at least we have not found quotes yet) but are widely held by Message ministers/believers and are taught in message churches.
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| *The doctrine of progressive revelation
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| *Your Pastor will take you through.
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| *The Message is our Absolute. In other words - ''William Branham said it, I believe it, that settles it.''
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| *The Pastor is our Absolute or Your Pastor in his Office is always right.
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| *Diminishing the Life and Ministry of Jesus Christ of two thousand years ago, as a result of Promoting the Jesus Christ of Today.
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| *The focus on the message, removes the focus from the bible.
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| *Rapturing Faith in on the Tapes.
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| *Don't question. Don't argue. Don't Debate. Don't Discuss. Just give them a message book.
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| *If they're Seed...
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| *The church is the wife, the husband is the pastor
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| *The KJV is the only inspired translation of the Bible.
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| *"programs" are of the devil, so no-one does anything to help others through the church.
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| *Missions are for people overseas, not the homeless down the street.
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| *It's OK to preach against other churches who don't have the mighty revelation.
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| *Deacons are glorified ushers (and no longer redistribute wealth to the poor)
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| *There's no higher order to reveal the Word than a prophet. - The following is a quote of Luke Gibson - "that is an elementary teaching in this message and a close look at the scriptures will declare God always reveals His Word by prophets (Amos 3:7)"
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| *Education is of the devil... but I know more than other Christians.
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| *Everyone outside the message is foolish virgin
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| =Things that William Branham taught message believers don't believe=
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| There are a few things that William Braham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.
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| *[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
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