El Shaddai: Difference between revisions

[[William Branham]] took his reference to the breasted god from the Scofield Bible.  Scofield was not a Hebrew scholar.  It is interesting to note that the recent Scofield revision (1967) recognizes the error of the prior versions and focuses on the meaning as “all sufficient” and to the usual translation of EL SHADDAI as “God Almighty.” <ref>Carl F. H. Henry, God, Revelation, and Authority, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1999), 193.</ref>

The Emphatic Diaglott is a Greek Interlinear version of the New Testament published by the Watchtower Society<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphatic_Diaglott Wikipedia article on the Emphatic Diaglott]</ref>, so William Branham's suggestion that it contains a reference to Genesis 17 is specious.  Additionally, William Branham admits that he did not use the Thompson Chain Reference Bible, so his reference to it is hypothetical and based on assumption.  The Bible that he admits to using almost exclusively is the Scofield Bible.  The "Thompson Chain" is only referred to by Branham on 4 occasions and always in the same paragraph as a reference to the Scofield Bible.