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'''Plagiarism''' is the act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. It is all about not telling people where you got your ideas from, particularly if you copy someone word for word. It is not necessarily about copyright violation although that could be part of it. | '''Plagiarism''' is the act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. It is all about not telling people where you got your ideas from, particularly if you copy someone word for word. It is not necessarily about copyright violation although that could be part of it. | ||
William Branham told his audience in his sermon on the Seventy Weeks of Daniel (see below) that he “didn’t know it yet” (but was going to preach on it that morning), that he’d studied Larkin’s writings BUT DIDN’T AGREE WITH THEM and that what they were going to hear was going to come from a revelation that William Branham was trusting GOD to give him. This is how William Branham lifted himself up to become the “messenger of God” of our age. | |||
And this is why we feel it so important to compare what Larkin and others wrote side by side with what William Branham said. If Branham had preached on these subjects saying, “''I’ve been reading these books, and I agree with what Clarence Larkin has written''”, we would have no argument with him. '''But he didn’t.''' | |||
William Branham took direct quotes from Clarence Larkin (and others) and used them to deceive his audiences into thinking that he had a special rapport with God, and that God was using him to reveal things that no one had seen before. In fact, he told his followers that although he HAD read Larkin’s books (among others), “they didn’t come out right”, thus saying that he wasn’t going to preach what Larkin had written. He lied to his listeners, and that’s just not right. | |||
William Branham's plagiarism was first brought to our attention by [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message#Websites|Nathan Rivera in his ebook entitled "A Logical Refutation of Branham's Message" which is available for free download]]. | William Branham's plagiarism was first brought to our attention by [[Research Sources for William Branham and His Message#Websites|Nathan Rivera in his ebook entitled "A Logical Refutation of Branham's Message" which is available for free download]]. | ||
What does God think about plagiarism? | |||
=Plagiarism is a Biblical '''Sin'''= | =Plagiarism is a Biblical '''Sin'''= | ||