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Jesus did not say, "How could you doubt me, John?" He did not condemn John for doubting. What he did was point to the evidence and to tell John's followers to go back to him and tell John the Baptist what they saw. | Jesus did not say, "How could you doubt me, John?" He did not condemn John for doubting. What he did was point to the evidence and to tell John's followers to go back to him and tell John the Baptist what they saw. | ||
Jesus did not condemn doubt. He simply pointed to the evidence. | '''Jesus did not condemn doubt. He simply pointed to the evidence.''' | ||
=William Branham and Doubt= | =William Branham and Doubt= | ||
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:'''''Now, you can doubt me, I'm a man. You got a right to.''' But you mustn't doubt God.<ref>THE.WORKING.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0816</ref> | :'''''Now, you can doubt me, I'm a man. You got a right to.''' But you mustn't doubt God.<ref>THE.WORKING.OF.THE.HOLY.SPIRIT_ PRINCE.ALBERT.SK 56-0816</ref> | ||
William Branham also believed it was healthy to ask questions. In fact, that was what contributed to a strong church: | |||
:''Now, if anyone's got any questions that they want to hand in, why, just push them right on up, let some child bring them or whatever you want to. Or maybe, if we get through… I—I got about six here on one page, and then here, then we got two over there. Now, we're—we want to find out. The reason we do this is to find out what's on the people's mind, what they're thinking about. See? And '''that's what makes a good strong church.''' You've got to have the—the times, just like you got to comb the cockleburs out like, you know, and everything, get all the—the things out of the way so that you can move steadily. So now '''that's the reason we have question night once in a while''', is to find out. <ref>William Branham, 53-0729 - Questions And Answers On Genesis, para. 1</ref> | |||
'''William Branham at times confused doubt with unbelief, but they are actually two different things. | '''William Branham at times confused doubt with unbelief, but they are actually two different things. | ||