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    *[[The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa]]
    *[[The Vision of the Meetings in South Africa]]
    *[[The Brown Bear Vision]]
    *[[The Brown Bear Vision]]
    =Explanations for the Failed Prophecies=


    [[Cognitive Dissonance]] forces message believers to deal with these in a variety of ways.  But in order to end the cognitive dissonance, they have to make these issues unimportant and capable of being ignored because that is exactly what they do with these problems, ignore them.
    [[Cognitive Dissonance]] forces message believers to deal with these in a variety of ways.  But in order to end the cognitive dissonance, they have to make these issues unimportant and capable of being ignored because that is exactly what they do with these problems, ignore them.
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    The following are some of the explanations provided.
    The following are some of the explanations provided.


    =Jonah prophesied against Nineveh and it was not destroyed=
    ==Jonah prophesied against Nineveh but it was not destroyed==


    The problem with this explanation is that it is done without a knowledge of scripture.
    The problem with this explanation is that it is done without a knowledge of scripture.
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    Even William Branham himself agreed with this being the Biblical standard.
    Even William Branham himself agreed with this being the Biblical standard.


     
    ==The Bible has errors and people believe it.  So if the mesage has errors, it's the same thing==
    =The Bible has errors and people believe it.  So if the mesage has errors, it's the same thing=


    An example of this is the reasoning given by Voice of God Recordings ("VoGR") in Catch the Vision, 2012, Volume 2.
    An example of this is the reasoning given by Voice of God Recordings ("VoGR") in Catch the Vision, 2012, Volume 2.
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    #Every Gospel tells the resurrection story differently.  How can the Bible be true if a story this important is different in all four accounts?
    #Every Gospel tells the resurrection story differently.  How can the Bible be true if a story this important is different in all four accounts?
    #Paul's story of his conversion experience is is told three times in the Book of Acts, and every time the Lord’s instructions to Paul
    #Paul's story of his conversion experience differs between Acts 9 and Acts 22.  How can you believe the Bible if it can't get its facts straight on whether Paul companions heard the voice or not?
    are told slightly different.  How can you believe Paul if he tells his story three different ways on three different occasions?


    ==Differences in the Gospel Accounts==
    ===Differences in the Gospel Accounts===


    There are a number of explanations for the differences in the stories between the Gospel accounts, the simplest being: There are 4 different people telling the same story.  Who in their right mind would expect them to be exactly the same?
    There are a number of explanations for the differences in the stories between the Gospel accounts, the simplest being: There are 4 different people telling the same story.  Who in their right mind would expect them to be exactly the same?


    ===Differences in Paul's Conversion Experiences===
    Message ministers don't understand Greek.  In fact, they like to mock those that study it (for example, listen to Vin Dayal's sermon of January 13, 2013).  For them, perhaps ignorance is bliss.  But if you were a non-English speaker, how could you really hope to understand what William Branham is really saying if you don't speak English?  And what if the translator was using English from 400 years ago?  Do you understand that there might be a bit of a problem?
    Message ministers don't understand Greek.  In fact, they like to mock those that study it (for example, listen to Vin Dayal's sermon of January 13, 2013).  For them, perhaps ignorance is bliss.  But if you were a non-English speaker, how could you really hope to understand what William Branham is really saying if you don't speak English?  And what if the translator was using English from 400 years ago?  Do you understand that there might be a bit of a problem?


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    Acts 22:9 does not deny that the associates of Paul heard certain sounds; it simply declares that they did not hear in such a way as to understand what was being said.  Our English idiom in this case simply is not so expressive as the Greek.
    Acts 22:9 does not deny that the associates of Paul heard certain sounds; it simply declares that they did not hear in such a way as to understand what was being said.  Our English idiom in this case simply is not so expressive as the Greek.
    ==Differences in Paul's Conversion Experiences==




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