Yo Visitor,
Now what?
Doctrines.
Mr. Branham's most controversial doctrines were unorthodox interpretations of the Scriptures that he said had been lost through the ages. He believed that God sent him as a prophet to restore these lost "mysteries" to the Church. Some of his most well known teachings include:
1.God is not a Trinity, but has manifested Himself in three dispensations:
a. As Father in the Old Testament;
b. As Son in the New Testament;
c. As Holy Spirit in His Church.
He taught that God was not omnipresent because, as a being, He could not be everywhere at once. He also believed that Jesus was not God until the Holy Spirit incarnated His body at the time of His baptism. Jesus was again reduced to a mere mortal man when the Holy Spirit supposedly left His body in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before He was crucified.
2.The fall in the Garden of Eden was a result of an adulterous affair between Eve and the Serpent. This doctrine is known as Serpent's Seed. As a result of this affair, Cain was born (i.e., the Serpent--not Adam--was Cain's true father).
3.The Catholic Church is the fulfillment of Mystery Babylon from the book of Revelation. Mystery Babylon is the mother of harlots. Her children are our present protestant denominational churches. He believed that Revelation 18:4 was a call for Christians to leave their denominational churches and come to his Message, the only true revelation of Jesus Christ.
4.Hell is not eternal.
5.Mr. Branham taught that his Message represents the required truth necessary for members of the Elect Bride of Jesus Christ to accept in order to make the Rapture.
6.Members of the Bride are Eternal, having "theophanies" (their glorified bodies waiting for them in heaven) which had no beginning and will never die.
7.Christians who reject the Message are lost. Christians who are ignorant of the importance of the Message may be saved as lower class believers if they treat Message believers kindly. They will not make the Rapture, however, but must endure the Great Tribulation while followers of the Message are Raptured.
(excerpt from -
http://people.delphiforums.com/JohnK63/home.htm
How do you reconcile these anti mainstream Christian views, especially point 1.?
Allcare.
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