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:''And I different agree with the organization of Pentecost that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. '''That’s wrong. Absolutely, it’s wrong. God… Jesus couldn’t have been His Own Father,''' and if God is a Man, then Jesus was born sexual desire and not virgin birth. That settles the whole thing. You see? If He’s one like your finger’s one, then what? Then He was His Own daddy. How could He have been? That’s wrong. He had a Father, Jesus did.<ref>William Branham, 53-0907A - Lord, Show Us The Father And It Sufficeth Us</ref> | :''And I different agree with the organization of Pentecost that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. '''That’s wrong. Absolutely, it’s wrong. God… Jesus couldn’t have been His Own Father,''' and if God is a Man, then Jesus was born sexual desire and not virgin birth. That settles the whole thing. You see? If He’s one like your finger’s one, then what? Then He was His Own daddy. How could He have been? That’s wrong. He had a Father, Jesus did.<ref>William Branham, 53-0907A - Lord, Show Us The Father And It Sufficeth Us</ref> | ||
:''Now, the Oneness took it, the oneness group of people, and '''try to make Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, just one office and one place, and like your finger, one. That’s wrong.''' God could not…Jesus could not been His Own father. If He was, then He was a…Well, '''how could He been His Own father?'''<ref>William Branham, 57-0901E - Hebrews, Chapter Four, para. 128</ref> | |||
:''That’s why we stay at the Branham Tabernacle. That’s why we’re not Assemblies. That’s '''why we’re not Oneness. That’s why we’re not Jesus Only.''' That’s why we’re not Methodist. That’s why we’re not Baptist. Just a—a little tabernacle here. We don’t have no denomination at all. We’re free, in Christ. That’s why we stay the way we do. And God has blessed us, God helping us.<ref>William Branham, 58-0927 - Why Are We Not A Denomination?, para. 194</ref> | |||
:''A few days ago, when Doctor Lamsa come to me, and never knowed nothing about that, and brought me a picture, which brother’s got it there with him now. Have you got that picture? Have you got the Bible with you, laying there, it’s in your book? All right. There was a picture of the old ancient Hebrew sign of God, just exactly that existed in the days of Job, before the Bible was ever wrote. God in His three attributes, not three gods. One God in three attributes. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three offices that God worked into. Not three gods, three attributes! And there It was. | |||
:''When that great man, Doctor Lamsa, the translation of the Lamsa Bible, when he said that morning. When I told him that, I said—I said, “What’s that sign?” 122 He said, “That’s God’s ancient sign, in the Hebrew. God, one God in three attributes.” I said, “Such as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?” He stopped, and he set his cup of coffee down, he looked at me. Gene, believe you was there, Leo. Said, “You believe that?” I said, “With all my heart.” | |||
:''He said, “Last night, standing in your meeting, Brother Branham, I seen that discernment. I’ve never seen it before in America, in my land.” He said, “These American people don’t even know the Bible. Only thing they know is their denomination. They don’t even know where they’re standing.” Said, “They don’t know nothing.” He said, “But when I stood there last night,” said, “I said…” Now, Brother Gene, I just say this with reverence and love and such. He said, “I said, ‘That must be a prophet.’ B'''ut when I see that you believe that Father, Son and Holy Ghost was no three gods, it was attributes, then I know that you’re a prophet of God, or it wouldn’t be revealed to you like that.”''' He said, “That’s a perfect sign.” Said, “I’ve never…” Said, “You’re not oneness?” | |||
:'''''I said, “No, sir. I am not the oneness.''' I believe in God being the Almighty God, and the three attributes are only three offices that the one God lived in.” He said, “Bless your heart!” He said, “Someday you’ll pour your blood upon the earth for that, but,” said, “prophets always die for their cause.” 127 And I said, “So let it be, if it pleases my Lord.” The translation of the Lamsa Bible.<ref>William Branham, 60-0515E - Adoption #1, para. 121-125</ref> | |||
:''Now, I’m not a… don’t… And I say… '''And some people say, “He’s a ‘Jesus Only,’” You’re mistaken there.''' I wouldn’t have that kind of a spirit on me. There that dogmatic, ungodly thing that… No, sir. '''I’m not Oneness. Not at all. I’m not trinity either.''' I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in God manifested in three offices. Now His office is in my heart, in your heart. Not another God somewhere else; another God somewhere else; another God somewhere else. That’s as pagan as pagan can be. Never one time was that even thought of until the Nicene Council. Find it in the Bible, or find it in history—till that time. It’s not there.<ref>William Branham, 61-0318 - Abraham's Covenant Confirmed, para. 71</ref> | |||
:''Now, God cannot be three people, three Gods. '''Neither can Jesus be His Own Father''', in one. See? So, you see, it makes both radically wrong.<ref>William Branham, 61-0425B - The Godhead Explained, para. 131</ref> | |||
:''In the day that the Pentecostal come out, '''they got the “Jesus Only” group. Now, that’s wrong, again. How can Jesus be His Own Father?''' See? So it knocks that out. 176 But there is supposed to be an eagle time come. See? That’s the time It’s to straighten all those mysteries out. See?<ref>William Branham, 63-0324M - Questions And Answers On The Seals, para. 175</ref> | |||
:''There is God, see, not three gods. Oh, how many of you trinitarian people got that mixed up. '''And how you Oneness people got it mixed up, too, of Him being one like your finger.''' Uh-huh. See? They, they both of them got it mixed up. See? That’s right. He’s the one God like your finger, one, how could He be His Own Father? See? See, '''He can’t be His Own Father.''' And if He had another Father outside of the Holy Spirit, and if God is a man, a person, then He is a…the Holy Spirit was His Father, and God is His Father, Matthew 1, so then He was an illegitimate Child. See? So you can’t make it either way, you, it’s both wrong.<ref>William Branham, 63-0804E - Calling Jesus On The Scene, para. 44</ref> | |||
:''There is where '''the oneness missed it, there is where the trinity missed it, both sides of the road. But the happy medium is right in between.''' If God could be His Own Father, if Jesus was His Own Father, He couldn’t be. And if He had another Father besides God, and the Bible said the “Holy Ghost” was His Father, and if they’re two different spirits, He was an illegitimate child. That’s right. Which was the Father of Him, God or the Holy Ghost? You say one and watch how embarrassed you’re going to get. God was His Father. Is that right?<ref>William Branham, 65-0429B - The Seed Shall Not Be Heir With The Shuck, para. 107</ref> | |||
=Denominations that follow Oneness Theology= | =Denominations that follow Oneness Theology= |