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The following is a master list of issues and problems that have been raised with respect to William Branham and his message.  If you are aware of any errors/problems/concerns that are not on this list, please let us know [[Contact information|by email]] or by a message to us on our Facebook page.
 
The purpose of this list is to provide a short concise summary of all known issues 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.
 
=Problems with Prophecies=
 
*[[The Municipal Bridge Vision]]
*[[The Brown Bear Vision]]
*[[The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa]]
*[[Heavenly Vision|His Commission by a Heavenly Vision]]'''
*[[Prophecy of the Cloud]]
*[[The Marilyn Monroe Vision]]
*The Seven Visions of  1933
**[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
**[[Mussolini invades Ethiopia]]
**[[Hitler and WWII]]'''
**[[Russia and the three ...isms]]
**[[Driverless Cars]]
**[[Morality|The Morality of Women]]
**[[Rise of a Woman in America]]
**[[America in Ashes]]
*[[Man and the moon|Man will never land on the moon... well, the communists might]]
*[[New Albany Prophecy]]
*[[Ohio River flood of 1937|Ohio river flood]]
*[[The Pillar of Fire]]
*[[Kari Holma]] - The boy raised from the dead in Finland
*[[World Council of Churches]]
*[[Destruction of Los Angeles]]
*[[Florida under water]]
*[[Destruction of the Vatican]]
*[[The Seventh Angel is on the Earth at Christ's Coming]]
 
=General Credibility Issues=
 
*[[Plagiarism]]
*[[The Cloud]]
*[[Prophecy of the Cloud]]
*[[Rattlesnake Mesa]]
*[[Roy Davis|When did William Branham embrace Pentecostalism?]]
*[[Was William Branham Honest|The Explanation for His Poor Grammar]]
*[[1933 Ohio River Experience|The Voice on the Ohio River in 1933]]
*[[The Man from Windsor]]
*Changes to [[Congressman Upshaw]]'s story
*The [[Donny Morton]] story
*The story of [[King George VI]]
*[[William Branham Speaking as God|William Branham messes up as God speaks through him]]
*[[The Rock Where Moses Stood|God moved the rock that Moses stood on to the Arizona desert in 1964]]
*Was William Branham ever a professional boxer?
 
=Doctrinal/Biblical Issues with William Branham's Message=
 
*[[Three holy words]] of the Bible
*Sex was not in God's original plan
*Woman was designed by Satan
*[[Water baptism]]
*[[The Godhead]]
*[[The Serpent's Seed]]
*[[Michael the Archangel]]
*God only deals with one prophet at a time,
*[[Enoch and Noah|Noah started building the ark after he saw Enoch go in a Rapture]]
*[[Enoch and Noah|Enoch was a type of the wise virgin, and Noah was a type of the foolish virgin]]
*A seven letter word ending in “ham” is evidence of a spiritual man.
*Illegitimate children cannot be part of the rapture.
*"That which is perfect has come"
*The Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is believing the message
*One of the chief mysteries of the last days is to receive Holy Spirit without sensation
*Tithes goes to the ministers
*Can't use tithes to build a church
*God's three Bibles
*For a person to be qualified for the ministry, they have to marry a virgin.
*Mixed Race Marriages.
*For a women to have long hair is not good enough; it must be uncut (i.e. no trimming of split ends).
*If your wife cuts her hair, you can divorce her. God doesn't even hear her prayer.
*[[Marriage and Divorce|A man can remarry after divorce but a woman can't]]
*Capernaum is under the sea
 
=Other Issues Relating to William Branham's Message=
*[[Hagin Prophecy|Kenneth Hagin's Prophecy]]
*The sun revolves around the earth
*Enoch built the Great Pyramid
*The Earth has four corners
*Women have one less rib than men
 
=Doctrinal/Biblical Issues Taught by Message Churches=
 
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.
 
*[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
*Your Pastor will take you through.
*The Message is our Absolute.  In other words - ''William Branham said it, I believe it, that settles it.''
*The Pastor is our Absolute or Your Pastor in his Office is always right.
*Diminishing the Life and Ministry of Jesus Christ of two thousand years ago, as a result of Promoting the Jesus Christ of Today.
*The focus on the message, removes the focus from the bible.
*Rapturing Faith in on the Tapes.
*Don't question. Don't argue. Don't Debate. Don't Discuss. Just give them a message book.
*If they're Seed...
*The church is the wife, the husband is the pastor
*The KJV is the only inspired translation of the Bible.
*"programs" are of the devil, so no-one does anything to help others through the church.
*Missions are for people overseas, not the homeless down the street.
*It's OK to preach against other churches who don't have the mighty revelation.
*Deacons are glorified ushers and no longer redistribute wealth to the poor.
*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)''.
*Education is of the devil... but I know more than other Christians.
*Everyone outside the message is foolish virgin
 
=Things that William Branham taught message believers don't believe=
 
There are a few things that William Braham taught that followers of William Branham simply do not believe in any practical sense.
 
*[[The Importance of a Right Spirit]]
 
 
 
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