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 #Those who have been baptized in the Holy Spirit (these are the only people who are actually "born again")
-For the reasons outlined below, this teaching must be considered false doctrine.
+===Where did William Branham get this from?===
+Those familiar with the message will realize that William Branham borrowed or plagiarized almost all of his theology from other sources.  This is no exception.  The Methodist Holiness movement believed in entire sanctification as a second work of grace - a personal, definitive work of God’s sanctifying grace by which the war within oneself might cease and the heart be fully released from rebellion into wholehearted love for God and others.<ref>Melvin F. Dieter, “The Wesleyan Perspective,” in Five Views on Sanctification, ed. Stanley N. Gundry, Zondervan Counterpoints Collection (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987), 17.>/ref>
+The Pentecostal movement developed out of the Methodist Holiness movement and, therefore, early Pentecostals believed that Spirit-baptism was preceded by entire sanctification. However this changed early on into a two-stage process - eliminating entire sanctification as a prerequisite for Spirit-baptism. <ref>Simon Chan, Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011), 67.</ref>  However, those in the Pentecostal Holiness movement still held to the three stage experience.
 ==What the Bible actually teaches==