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<div style="border-bottom:2px #B87333 solid; text-align:left; padding:1px; margin:1px;"><font color='#800000' size='+1'>'''Was William Branham Honest? (Part 1)'''.</font> </div> | <div style="border-bottom:2px #B87333 solid; text-align:left; padding:1px; margin:1px;"><font color='#800000' size='+1'>'''Was William Branham Honest? (Part 1)'''.</font> </div> | ||
<mediaplayer width='800' height='600'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raWhgy6649o</mediaplayer> | <mediaplayer width='800' height='600'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raWhgy6649o</mediaplayer> | ||
=Problems with William Branham's Credibility= | |||
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|''We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God. We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.'' ~ 2 Corinthians 4:2 (NLT) | |||
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Was William Branham honest? If he can be shown to have distorted the truth or if his stories are constantly changing over time such that they vary significantly from their first telling, this would cast doubt on virtually everything that he said. The following list contains issues that raise questions regarding his honesty and truthfulness. Some of these concerns have only recently come to light but they are now sufficient in number that they should raise genuine concern on the part of anyone who is a follower of William Branham. | |||
==[[Roy Davis]]== | |||
There is a heartbreaking story that is familiar to all followers of William Branham. Bro. Branham first encountered Pentecostal people at a convention in Mishawaka, Indiana. While he was drawn to them and was invited to speak in their churches, he refused to join with them because he listened to his mother-in-law instead of God. And, as a result, his wife and daughter died as a direct result of his disobedience to God. | |||
:But, is this the truth? | |||
:According to [[Roy Davis]] and Douglas Weaver, William Branham attended a Pentecostal church pastored by Roy Davis well before Hope died. Roy Davis himself says that William Branham received the baptism of the Holy Spirit in his home. This all precedes the death of Hope and Sharon Rose Branham in July 1937. | |||
==[[The Cloud]]== | |||
:Why did William Branham state that [[The Cloud|the cloud]] was directly above him while he was hunting, when it actually appeared 8 days earlier 200 miles away? Why did he say that Life Magazine said the cloud appeared at the same place that he was hunting when it clearly didn't? Why does William Branham state that the pictures in Life Magazine were taken on the day that he heard the blast when they were actually taken over a week earlier? | |||
==The Explanation for His Poor Grammar== | |||
:Why did William Branham speak such poor English? His explanation was that when he was a boy, his father died. He had ten children to take care of, and had to work and support his mother and the children. But his father died when William Branham was 34 years old. Was he trying to make people feel sorry for him? | |||
==[[1933 Ohio River Experience]]== | |||
:Why was there no mention of [[1933 Ohio River Experience|the voice on the Ohio River]] by William Branham prior to 1952? Why did the books by Gordon Lindsay and Julius Stadsklev make no mention of the voice (both books were written based on information that came from William Branham)? Why is there no evidence of the newspaper articles that William Branham referred to? | |||
==[[Plagiarism]]== | |||
[[Plagiarism]] is the act of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. Are you aware that William Branham stole multiple messages, doctrines and concepts from other ministers but never properly gave them credit for them. Are you aware that some of these stolen ideas he said came directly from God or the Angel? | |||
:Why would he do this when God speaks against this practice in Jeremiah 23:30 - ''So I, the LORD, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who steal messages from one another that they claim are from me.'' (NET) | |||
'''[[Prophecy of the Cloud]]''' | |||
:On December 23, 1962, William Branham relates [[Prophecy of the Cloud|a vision in which he sees five angels in a constellation]]. One week later, he changed the number to seven. Why? | |||
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|''Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.'' ~ Ephesians 4:25 | |||
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And Please don’t get mad at us, we are just letting you know what he said. | And Please don’t get mad at us, we are just letting you know what he said. | ||
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