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We were asked a question recently - '''"What did William Branham teach that takes a person away from Christ?"''' | We were asked a question recently - '''"What did William Branham teach that takes a person away from Christ?"''' | ||
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:''And the saddest of all, when I read about Jesus, guess who was on my mind!? Now who continually placed himself in every Scripture he could think of to put my mind on him instead of my Savior? If that didn't take me away from Christ, I don't know what did! Yes, I had to repent with an unbelievable brokenness. I still weep as I write this. | :''And the saddest of all, when I read about Jesus, guess who was on my mind!? Now who continually placed himself in every Scripture he could think of to put my mind on him instead of my Savior? If that didn't take me away from Christ, I don't know what did! Yes, I had to repent with an unbelievable brokenness. I still weep as I write this. | ||
==William Branham pointed to believing his message as the evidence of the Holy Spirit== | |||
William Branham stated: | |||
:''If you are true seed, you will hear that Word; the Spirit will baptize you into the body of Christ, filling you and empowering you, and you will receive the Word for your day and age. See how clear the true evidence becomes when the Word is revealed to you? | |||
:'':''Now we have been constantly saying that the true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives.<ref>William Branham, An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages, Chapter Four, The Smyrnaean Church Age, para. 154-3 and 155-1</ref> | |||
:''There's only one evidence of the Holy Spirit that I know of, and that is a genuine faith in the promised Word of the hour.<ref>William Branham, 64-0823E, Questions And Answers #2, para 44</ref> | |||
But the Bible tells us something entirely different: | |||
:''And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.<ref>Ephesians 1:13 NIV</ref> | |||
:''But you have received the Holy Spirit, and He lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what He teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as He has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.<ref> 1 John 2.27 (NLT)</ref> | |||
:''By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the one who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence.<ref>2 Peter 1:3 (NLT)</ref> | |||
==Message ministers point to the message more than to Christ== | ==Message ministers point to the message more than to Christ== | ||
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William Branham used this concept of the magnification of the law, among other things, to bring Old Testament law into the church, thereby going directly against Paul's teaching in the book of Galatians. | William Branham used this concept of the magnification of the law, among other things, to bring Old Testament law into the church, thereby going directly against Paul's teaching in the book of Galatians. | ||
==William Branham | ==William Branham taught a two-tiered Christianity== | ||
There is no division in the [[The Body of Christ|body of Christ]]. But William Branham taught that you can't really know God apart from William Branham. It is not the Holy Spirit that leads us into truth, but William Branham alone. | |||
The New Testament teaches no two-level or two-class Christianity. Nowhere in the Epistles do we read of Paul or Peter telling a church that is having problems, “''You all need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit''.” Nowhere do we hear of the risen Lord Jesus speaking to the troubled and weak churches in Revelation 2–3, “Ask me to baptize you in the Holy Spirit.” Clearly the two-level or two-class view taught by all of these groups throughout history does not have a solid foundation in the New Testament and neither does William Branham's teaching on the subject.<ref>Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (Leicester, England; Grand Rapids, MI: Inter-Varsity Press; Zondervan Pub. House, 2004), 777.</ref> | |||
==Message followers condemn everyone outside the message== | |||
William Branham stated the following: | |||
:''Now, when this Angel went to Sodom and begin to speak His message through a man, they mocked at Him and laughed at Him. And they would not receive the message. Neither do they do it today. It's the very same thing, and they won't believe it. There's only one thing left; that's judgment.<ref>58-0109</ref> | |||
:''Now there is only one thing can happen. There has to be a Message at the end time, when there is nothing else can follow It. And now the ecumenical world has set up such a regime that there can be no denomination and no not nothing else follow it; you're either in it or you're not in it.<ref>63-0728</ref> | |||
:''But he had the end-time message. Now, all that did not believe were condemned, and the ones that did believe the message was saved. God gave them Life and they were saved, and the ones that did not believe It was lost.<ref>63-0116</ref> | |||
This requires those in the message to condemn everyone that does not believe the message. This is completely contrary to the Gospel. | |||
==William Branham said his message was Jesus Christ== | |||
William Branham stated: | |||
:''"What are you going to do with Him, this Jesus called Christ? Christ is the Anointed Word. See? What are you going to do with It? It's the Message of the hour."<ref>63-1124M</ref> | |||
By doing this, William Branham effectively places his word above the Bible. If you can't disagree with William Branham, then where he disagrees with the Bible, a message follower must accept William Branham over scripture. | |||
==The message places William Branham between the Christian and Jesus== | |||
William Branham's message says we need Jesus plus the prophet for this age. But Jesus + Nothing = Everything | |||
Jesus + William Branham = Another Gospel | |||
==The message is built on lies== | ==The message is built on lies== | ||
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William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to forerun the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. | William Branham portrayed himself as a simple, honest, uneducated man who was sent from God as a prophet to forerun the second coming of Christ. However, many of the stories that he told have been proven to be untrue and many of the doctrines that he said he received directly from God were, in fact, plagiarized from other ministers. | ||
[[List of Issues with the Message#Was William Branham Honest?|Click here to go to the detailed list of William Branham's. Clicking on each item on the list will take you to a detailed explanation of that issue.]] | [[List of Issues with the Message#Was William Branham Honest?|Click here to go to the detailed list of William Branham's lies and falsehoods. Clicking on each item on the list will take you to a detailed explanation of that issue.]] | ||
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