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William Branham stated many times that both the Oneness and Trinitarians were wrong and that the truth was somewhere in between. | William Branham stated many times that both the Oneness and Trinitarians were wrong and that the truth was somewhere in between. | ||
:''Notice, the Book written... When this angel finishes all these loose-end ministries that through the battle they fought, Luther fought, and Wesley fought, and the Pentecostals fought, but there's coming one, says the Bible, that in the days of his sounding, all these mysteries... The Oneness run off on Jesus' Name. The Trinity went off on Father, Son, Holy Ghost, just like they did at the Nicaea Council: same thing. '''They both was wrong.''' But now, in the middle of the road, in the Scriptures lays out the truth. <ref>William Branham, December 30, 1962, Sign of the End </ref> | |||
:''Notice, the Book written... When this angel finishes all these loose-end ministries that through the battle they fought, Luther fought, and Wesley fought, and the Pentecostals fought, but there's coming one, says the Bible, that in the days of his sounding, all these mysteries... The Oneness run off on Jesus' Name. The Trinity went off on Father, Son, Holy Ghost, just like they did at the Nicaea Council: same thing. They both was wrong. But now, in the middle of the road, in the Scriptures lays out the truth. | |||
:''There is God, see, not three gods. '''Oh, how many of you trinitarian people got that mixed up. And how you Oneness people got it mixed up, too''', of Him being one like your finger. Uh-huh. See? They, they both of them got it mixed up. See? That's right. He's the one God like your finger, one, how could He be His Own Father? See? See, He can't be His Own Father. And if He had another Father outside of the Holy Spirit, and if God is a man, a person, then He is a... the Holy Spirit was His Father, and God is His Father, Matthew 1, so then He was an illegitimate Child. See? So you can't make it either way, you, it's both wrong. <ref>William Branham, August 4, 1963, Calling Jesus on the Scene </ref> | |||
:''There is God, see, not three gods. Oh, how many of you trinitarian people got that mixed up. And how you Oneness people got it mixed up, too, of Him being one like your finger. Uh-huh. See? They, they both of them got it mixed up. See? That's right. He's the one God like your finger, one, how could He be His Own Father? See? See, He can't be His Own Father. And if He had another Father outside of the Holy Spirit, and if God is a man, a person, then He is a... the Holy Spirit was His Father, and God is His Father, Matthew 1, so then He was an illegitimate Child. See? So you can't make it either way, you, it's both wrong. | |||
William Branham also taught that Jesus Christ was part of God's creation. | |||
:'' | :''He was God manifested in a flesh of His creative Son. See? Now, that's, God created the Son. <ref>William Branham, August 4, 1963, Calling Jesus on the Scene </ref> | ||
:''Now notice! And after then the wise men identifying Him what He would be, and we find through the Scripture that's exactly what He was: Deity in service for death. What for? Deity in service to God for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death, to redeem the world. But what did the world do to It? They refused It. They rejected It. Why? Some of them, a big part of them, did that because this: because He did die! They said, "He couldn't be Deity and die." '''The Man (the body) was not Deity, but Deity was in the body'''. This body has to perish. The very Christ that's in you is the only thing that can raise you up. That's Deity, God in you.<ref> | :''I said, "Yes, He was Divine. '''He was the created Son of God'''." And I said, "God was in Him reconciling the world to Himself."<ref>William Branham, July 29, 1951, Lazarus<ref> | ||
:''Now notice! And after then the wise men identifying Him what He would be, and we find through the Scripture that's exactly what He was: Deity in service for death. What for? Deity in service to God for death. Jesus was Deity in service for death, to redeem the world. But what did the world do to It? They refused It. They rejected It. Why? Some of them, a big part of them, did that because this: because He did die! They said, "He couldn't be Deity and die." '''The Man (the body) was not Deity, but Deity was in the body'''. This body has to perish. The very Christ that's in you is the only thing that can raise you up. That's Deity, God in you.<ref>William Branham, December 22, 1963, God's Gifts </ref> | |||
=Branhamism and Swedenborgianism= | =Branhamism and Swedenborgianism= | ||