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If you are following Jesus Christ, and are filled with the Holy Spirit, it would not matter whether William Branham was actually a prophet.  Is it possible to be a true follower of Jesus Christ outside of the message?  Certainly!
If you are following Jesus Christ, and are filled with the Holy Spirit, it would not matter whether William Branham was actually a prophet.  Is it possible to be a true follower of Jesus Christ outside of the message?  Certainly!
We understand from scripture that God's "''divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.''"<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Pe 1:3.</ref>


Only two of Jesus' disciples were previously followers of John the Baptist.  It was not a requirement to follow John in order to follow Jesus.  Why should it be different now?
Only two of Jesus' disciples were previously followers of John the Baptist.  It was not a requirement to follow John in order to follow Jesus.  Why should it be different now?
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How can Bro. Branham be a prophet when he failed the simple test of Deuteronomy 18:22?  We certainly appreciate that there are ways to rationalize oneself around all of the problems, just like [[Cognitive Dissonance#UFOCult|the UFO cult followers did in our article on cognitive dissonance]].  But to the simple and the unlearned, William Branham failed the test.
How can Bro. Branham be a prophet when he failed the simple test of Deuteronomy 18:22?  We certainly appreciate that there are ways to rationalize oneself around all of the problems, just like [[Cognitive Dissonance#UFOCult|the UFO cult followers did in our article on cognitive dissonance]].  But to the simple and the unlearned, William Branham failed the test.


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True spiritual knowledge is not fact based, it is love based.  And that love is both vertical (to God) and horizontal (to our fellow man). 
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Jesus said that if we love only the people that love us, why would we expect a reward?  Even the world does does that!  That is the thing that is most lacking in message churches - the love of God for those outside of the message.  John said clearly that we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.
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