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1956-1960

God Created the World by Faith in His Own Word
Satan never received the Holy Ghost; he ain't got nothing then to give you faith.  It's God that's got the faith.  And just as you're filled with God, you're filled with faith.
If you're the Son of God, you're like God.  He just speaks the Word and it creates itself.  His Word's the creative power.  How'd the world come here?  He made it out of things which was not.  He just said, "Let there be," and here it is.  He believed His own Word.
("All Things Are Possible to Him That Believeth," July 22, 1956, message #56-0722)

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Cutting Hair is Grounds for Divorce
And now, you [as women] say, "Brother Branham, I think if I got short hair, it makes me cool and everything like." That's right, but if you got long hair you'd be cooler. It'll take it all off your neck, and wrap it up and make it right. Why, you know what the Bible said, that a man has a right to put away his wife and get a divorce from her if she cuts her hair? If she cuts her hair, it shows she's living untrue to him. The Bible said so; I Corinthians 12, find out if it's not right. She that... A woman that cuts her hair dishonors her head, which is her husband. And if she's dishonorable, she should be divorced and got away from. That's right.
("The Church and Its Condition," August 5, 1956, message #56-0805)

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Whose Wife Shall She Be?
Marriage is honorable, but it should be entered prayerfully and reverently. And genuine love for that woman will bind you together forever. "What you bind on the earth, I'll bind in heaven."
("Hebrews Chapter Seven #2," September 22, 1957, message #57-0922)

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Wm. Branham’s Teachings Were Revealed to Him by His Angel
I have never tried to try to present anything in my life without first it being revealed. And I'm so thankful that the Angel of the Lord... Which I had no education, no ability. And this Angel come down, and has been my help sent from God. And He has never told me one thing but what absolutely dovetailed from Genesis to Revelations with that, insomuch till... I wrote down right quick when He said, "And you--and you shall take a gift of Divine healing." And I put it down just the way He said it.
("Questions And Answers On Hebrews #1," September 25, 1957, message #57-0925)

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Design Flaw in Adam's Body
He [Adam] was made both male and female; the man was. The Bible said he was. God made man both male and female, "created He him." Notice. Now, when man was separated from the theophany and put in flesh, he was--he wasn't just altogether there; part of his being was still a theophany, so it didn't look right.
("Questions and Answers on Hebrews #3," October 6, 1957, message #57-1006)

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Jesus Saved Everybody!
"Every person in here is healed right now. The Bible says you are. Every sinner inside this door, and every sinner in the world is already saved and been saved since Jesus' death at Calvary. You say, 'Brother Branham, I was saved ten years ago.' No, you accepted it ten years ago. He took away the sin of the world nineteen hundred years ago. But it's your personal faith in a finished work that brings the results. If you never accept it, you'll die and without mercy because you judged the Son of God thus. If you are sick tonight, 'He was wounded for our transgressions and with His stripes you were healed.' It's the past tense. It isn't that I lay hands on you, or any other minister lays hands on you; it's your personal faith in a finished work that Christ has did. Certainly."
("Queen of the South," February 8, 1958, message #58-0208)

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Denominations Are Harlots
If you say, "I'm a Christian," "What denomination do you belong to?" What difference does that make what denomination you belong to? We realize that denomination has nothing to do with God's Bible. And all Protestant denominations are harlots. The Bible said so. When you say you're a Methodist, you're a Methodist harlot. You say you're a Baptist, you're a Baptist harlot. When you say you're a Pentecost, you're a Pentecostal harlot. That's what the Bible said. So she [the Catholic Church] is a mother of harlots
("The Baptism of the Holy Spirit," September 28, 1958, message #58-0928M)

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Eve Was Created Years After Adam
God had done quit creating for years and years and years, until He made the woman out of a rib out of his side.
("Serpent’s Seed," September 28, 1958, message #58-0928E)

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Roots of Wm. Branham’s Attitude Towards Women
Now, I'm called a woman-hater; you know that, because I'm always kind of against women, but not against you sisters. I'm just against the way modern women act. That's right. Good women should be packed along.
But I can remember when my father's still up there running, I had to be out there with water and stuff, see young ladies that wasn't over seventeen, eighteen years old, up there with men my age now, drunk. And they'd have to sober them up and give them black coffee to get home to cook their husband's supper. Oh, something like that, I said, "I..." This was my remark then, "They're not worth a good clean bullet to kill them with it." That's right. And I hated women. That's right. And I just have to watch every move now, to keep from still thinking the same thing.
("Life Story," April 19, 1959, message #59-0419A)

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Unconfessed Premarital Sex Nullifies Marriage Vows
And if a man marries a woman and she has lived unclean before she marries him, and then she comes to him, if they've been married ever so long, and then she comes to him and says, "Honey, I want to tell you something.  I did run out with another man; I never told you," Jesus said he has a right to put her away and marry another, because they're not married in the beginning, 'cause she falsely told a--a lie against him.
("Questions and Answers," June 28, 1959, message #59-0628E)

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Jesus Wasn't Eternal
Jesus, the Lord Jesus Himself was a Tabernacle in which God dwelt in to manifest Himself, 'cause He was a Spirit. He was a Spirit. Now, Jesus wasn't eternal. God's Eternal. Jesus now is eternal because God has taken up a Body.
("Palmerworm, Locust, Cankerworm, Caterpillar," August 23, 1959, message #59-0823)

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Satan is Omnipresent
Tell me a congregation where evil doesn't set. Tell me where the sons of God are gathered together that Satan isn't in the midst of them. It's everything. So don't frown at that. See? Satan's everywhere.
("Q&A On the Holy Ghost," December 19, 1956, message #59-1219)

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Wm. Branham Accepts Endorsement of George Lamsa
When that great man,
Doctor Lamsa, the translation of the Lamsa Bible, when he said that morning when I told him that, I said--I said, "What's that sign?" He said, "That's God's ancient sign in the Hebrew: God, one God in three attributes." I said, "Such as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?" He stopped, and he set his cup of coffee down; he looked at me. Gene, believe you was there, Leo. Said, "You believe that?" I said, "With all my heart." He said, "Last night, standing in your meeting, Brother Branham, I seen that discernment. I've never seen it before in America, or in my land." He said, "These American people don't even know the Bible. Only thing they know is their denomination. They don't even know where they're standing." Said, "They don't know nothing." He said, "But when I stood there last night," I said--I said... Now, Brother Gene, I just say this with reverence and love and such; He said, "I said, 'That must be a prophet.' But when I see that you believe that Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was no three gods, it was attributes, then I know that you are a prophet of God, or it wouldn't be revealed to you like that." He said, "That's a perfect sign." Said, "I've never..." Said, "You're not Oneness?" I said, "No, sir. I am not the Oneness. I believe in God being the Almighty God, and the three attributes are only three offices that the one God lived in." He said, "Bless your heart." He said, "Someday you'll pour your blood upon the earth for that," but said, "prophets always die for their cause." And I said, "So let it be, if it pleases my Lord."
("Ephesians Parallels Joshua," May 15, 1960, message #60-0515E)

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Wm. Branham Prophesies His Son Joseph to Be a Prophet
I want to raise my little boy back there, Joseph.  I want to see him in the pulpit, when I can take this Bible... When I get to a place I see Joseph in the pulpit preaching as a--as a young man filled with the Holy Ghost, anointed with the Spirit of God upon him... And I believe he'll be a prophet.  The day when I--when I-when I saw him six years before he was born, you remember me telling you he was coming.  Remember when I caught him right there at the side of the altar, not knowing what I was saying, dedicating babies, I said, "Joseph, thou art a prophet."
("Adoption," May 22, 1922, message #60-0522E)

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Visions Leave William Branham Lifeless--Literally
Now, I doubt whether either--any of you ever seen a real vision, seen me have a real vision. My wife could tell you how it is. Sometimes I lay for hours without a bit of breath or a doctor can examine and find no pulse, and strike a match and hold that close to my nose and no breath for an hour or more.
("Be Not Afraid," July 17, 1960, message #60-0717)

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Soul-shaped Hole in Our Hearts
But every human being's got a little compartment in his heart , that there's not even a blood cell in it. Many years ago the critics used to say, "God made such an awful mistake when He said, 'As a man thinketh in his heart ,' because there's no mental faculties in the heart for him to think with." But two years ago, I believe it was, when I was in Chicago in a meeting, great headlines come in the paper, that they had discovered, science has, that a man does have a mental faculty in his heart , that there's a little compartment in the heart , the human heart , that's not in the--the animal heart . They've found it on research on the heart , and it--in there they say it's the place where the soul abides. So then, after all, God was right when He said, 'As a man thinketh in his heart ."
("What It Takes to Overcome All Unbelief: Our Faith", July 29, 1960, message #60-0729)

Here is yet another example of where WMB confused urban legend with true science!

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Jesus Died Speaking in Tongues
Jesus died, speaking in tongues. They said He spoke, and He spoke in another language. Sure, He did. "He spoke in Hebrew." He did not. That's not Hebrew writing. He spoke in a heavenly language.
("Five Definite Identifications of the True Church of the Living God," September 11, 1960, message #60-0911E)

The Bible does record Jesus as having spoken in another language from the cross: "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mark 15:34 However, the language was not a heavenly language, but in Aramaic, which was the common language spoken by the Jews in Jesus' day.

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Wm. Branham Didn’t Preach Error
"Now, Brother Branham is a prophet of the Lord," he said, "but don't listen to his teaching, because he's wrong."  The same Holy Spirit that preached the service tonight, the same Holy Spirit preaches all these things is the same Holy Spirit that discerns the thoughts of the heart.  Certainly.  What is the mark of a prophet?  He's a divine interpreter of the Divine Word.  That's exactly.  The Word of the Lord came to the prophet.  That's who it came to, not the theologian, the prophet.  Do you know what ‘prophet’ means?  Take the dictionary, and look, and see what it means: ‘An interpreter of the Divine Word.’  And then come and say such as that... See how... People just got so churchy, till they don't know God no more.
("Queen of the South," November 27, 1960, message #60-1127E)

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Man is Omnipotent
Now, man... I was going to choke it, but I'm going to say it. Man is omnipotent. You don't believe that, but he is. A man that's fully surrendered to God is omnipotent. Did not He say in Mark 11:22, "Whatsoever things you say and don't doubt in your heart, it'll come to pass. You can have what you've said?" What happens when two omnipotence meet? When God and man comes together through omnipotence, something's got to shake. Some... Whatsoever you'd say with that creative power of omnipotence of God, knowing that He's promised it, and He said it in His Word, it creates a power that goes out yonder and brings things to pass; things that is not, it makes them as though they are, because two omnipotence have met. There He stands. Oh, isn't He wonderful.
("The Patmos Vision," December 4, 1960, message #60-1204E)

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Noah Took Cue to Build Ark When Enoch Walked With God
And now, Noah was a type of the Jews, but Enoch went home without dying. And when Noah seen Enoch go, he knowed it was time to start on that ark. That's right. That was Noah's sign, when Enoch went home. And as soon as the Gentile church is taken away, then He makes Hisself known to Israel. See? That's right.
"Revelation Chapter One," December 4, 1960, message #60-1204M)

A careful reading of Genesis 5 will reveal that Enoch had already been gone 69 years by the time Noah was even born!

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X-Rays and Cosmic Light
Now, when we were made, if--when we were made. And they just found out, recently, that your body is full of light. X-ray proves that. The x-ray does not have any light of its own. It's your light that it uses. You're born with four rays. After a little while, say twenty, twenty-five, one ray goes out; and thirty-five, another; or forty, another one goes out; and finally when you get pass about sixty-five, you're living on your last ray. And every time you take a x-ray picture, you're tearing them rays down. That's the reason you don't have no more... and you stick these kids' feet in them machines, because it was just tearing the rays right out of their little bodies. And that's cosmic light that's in you, that you're made up, full of light cells. Now, that's cosmic light.
("The Uncertain Sound," December 18, 1960, message #60-1218)

William Branham got a lot of things wrong on this topic. Cosmic light is the totality of the electromagnetic spectrum emanating from objects in outer space, such as stars, quasars and hot gases. Cosmic light includes colors we can see (the colors of the rainbow) as well as those not visible to the human eye, such as Infrared, Ultraviolet, Gamma ray and X-ray.

Eastern religions such as Hinduism assert that cosmic light has certain supernatural qualities that influence human life on earth.

William Branham apparently confused the Hindu concept of cosmic light with the astrological concept of an "aura," that is, a multicolored halo-like light that the human body and other objects emit. The aura is usually invisible to the human eye except to so-called psychics or spiritualists.

WMB’s concept of x-ray radiation has no correlation to real life or even to the auras of Eastern Mysticism. He had no idea how x-rays work in the medical field. Medical x-rays are actually a form of photography. During an x-ray, a beam of x-ray radiation is focused towards an area of the human body, for example. Photographic film sensitive to x-rays is placed behind the body. X-ray radiation is able to “shine” right through most soft tissue in the body. However, it cannot pass through bone and other particularly thick masses. Any x-rays that are able to pass through the body continue on to strike the film and create a shadow image of whatever parts of the body the x-rays could not penetrate. It’s actually like what we see when our body leaves a shadow on the sidewalk on a bright sunny day.

The human body contributes nothing to an x-ray image. The image is created entirely by the amount of x-ray that is able to pass through the softer tissues in our bodies. In other words, x-ray machines don't take a picture of any kind of “cosmic light” which is detected by shooting x-rays into it as WMB thought.

As for what WMB meant by “cosmic light,” it seems to be another example of where he looked to other wolrdviews such as Hinduism or Astrology for his theology, rather than the only book of revelation we can learn the truth from: the Bible.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
(John 1:5)

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
(John 3:19)

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See also, X-rays Reveal Our Cosmic Light

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