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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.
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| 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.
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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 Marilyn Monroe Vision]]
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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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| *[[Man and the moon|Man will never land on the moon... well, the communists might]]
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| *[[New Albany Prophecy]]
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| *[[Ohio River flood of 1937|Ohio river flood]]
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| *[[The Pillar of Fire]]
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| *[[Kari Holma]] - The boy raised from the dead in Finland
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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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| *[[The Seventh Angel is on the Earth at Christ's Coming]]
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| *[[Was the birth of Joseph Branham foretold]]
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| *[[Death of Rose Shakarian]]
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| =General Credibility Issues=
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| *[[Plagiarism]]
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| *[[The Cloud]]
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| *[[Prophecy of 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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| *Changes to [[Congressman Upshaw]]'s story
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| *The [[Donny Morton]] story
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| *The story of [[King George VI]]
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| *[[William Branham Speaking as God|William Branham messes up as God speaks through him]]
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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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| *[[The Nazarite Birth]] of William Branham
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| *[[The Amber Light]]
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| =Doctrinal/Biblical Issues with William Branham's Message=
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| *[[Three holy words]] of the Bible
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| *His reasons for rejecting of [[Eternal Sonship]]
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| *The difference in meaning of [[Q&A on the Godhead#Eternal vs. Everlasting|Eternal vs. Everlasting]]
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| *Sex was not in God's original plan
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| *Woman was designed by Satan
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| *[[Water baptism]]
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| *[[The Godhead]]
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| *[[The Serpent's Seed]]
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| *[[Enoch and Noah#The Seventh from Adam|Enoch being the seventh from Adam]] is proof of the Serpent Seed doctrine
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| *[[Michael the Archangel]]
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| *[[Reading between the lines]]
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| *God only deals with one prophet at a time,
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| *[[Enoch and Noah|Noah started building the ark after he saw Enoch go in a Rapture]]
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| *[[Enoch and Noah|Enoch was a type of the wise virgin, and Noah was a type of the foolish virgin]]
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| *[[The Importance of a Seven-Lettered Name]]
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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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| *[[Christians that were required to believe Satanic doctrine]]
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| *[[The Importance of a Seven-Lettered Name]]
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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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| *[[Marriage and Divorce|If your wife cuts her hair, you can divorce her]].
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| *God doesn't hear the prayer of a woman that has cut her hair.
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| *[[Marriage and Divorce|A man can remarry after divorce but a woman can't]]
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| *[[Destruction of Los Angeles|Capernaum is under the sea]]
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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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| *Women have one less rib than men
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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 use of red herring arguments when [[Failed Prophecies]] are pointed out (see video)
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| *[[Progressive_Revelation|The doctrine of progressive revelation]]
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| *Only ministers can handle the Word.
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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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