What should we believe?

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    Many people have asked us, both those in the message and those that have left off following William Branham: "What do you think we should believe?"

    Those inside the message expect that we are looking for followers (we're not) and those who have left are simply looking for guidance.

    Don't follow any man=

    Believe what the church has always believed

    Think about the giants of the Christian faith over the past 500 years "of whom the world was not worthy". People like:

    • John Wycliffe (1331–1384), English philosopher, theologian, lay preacher and translator (responsible for 80% of the King James version of the Bible)
    • Martin Luther (1483–1546), German priest and professor of theology who was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
    • Menno Simons (1496–1561), Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Netherlands
    • William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), first published use of the term evangelical in English (1531)
    • John Bunyan (1628–1688), persecuted English Puritan Baptist preacher and author of Pilgrim's Progress
    • Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), American Puritan theologian and preacher in the First Great Awakening
    • John Wesley (1703–1791), English clergyman; founder of Methodism
    • Charles Wesley (1707–1788), English clergyman; brother of John Wesley, hymnwriter of Methodism
    • George Whitefield (1714–1770), English clergyman; early Methodist preacher and associate of John Wesley
    • John Newton (1725–1807), Scottish clergyman, author of Amazing Grace
    • William Cowper (1731–1800), English poet/author of numerous hymns, including "There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood"
    • Francis Asbury (1745–1816), founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church
    • William Wilberforce (1759–1833), worked to abolish slavery in the British Empire
    • Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), preacher in the Second Great Awakening, advocate of "New Measures"
    • Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), blind American writer of many famous hymns including "Blessed Assurance"
    • Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–1899) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), leaders in the Holiness movement
    • James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission
    • Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892), English Baptist preacher and advocate of Calvinism
    • Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899), American evangelist, pastor and educator
    • William Carey (1761-1834), A self-taught English cobbler who is considered to be the father of modern Protestant missions.

    John Bunyan (1628–1688), author of Pilgrim's Progress Oswald Chambers (1874–1917), author of My Utmost for His Highest

    • Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition
    • Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) – American missionary to Burma
    • George Müller (1805–1898), Christian evangelist and Director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England
    • Eric Liddell (1902–1945), Scottish athlete and missionary, who was forced to choose between his religious beliefs and competing in an Olympic race.

    Were these giants of the Christian faith all wrong in their basic beliefs or were they Christians that were required to believe Satanic doctrine as William Branham taught?

    Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.[1]

    1. The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Heb 12:1–3