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George Lamsa and William Branham
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As a Pentecostal, I am very fascinated with William Branham's ministry. He was a Kentuckian evangelist during the 50s and 60s. I thought it was interesting that he met George Lamsa, who seemed to respect Branham. A lot of people seem to think that Lamsa didn't believe in the supernatural, but if he believed Branham to be a man of God like I do, then he would have had to have had some belief in the miraculous. I know his translation doesn't seem very pro-miracle in several places (like II Kings 6:6 and the demoniacs being called lunatics) though!
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:As a Pentecostal, I am very fascinated with William Branham's ministry. He was a Kentuckian evangelist during the 50s and 60s. I thought it was interesting that he met George Lamsa, who seemed to respect Branham. A lot of people seem to think that Lamsa didn't believe in the supernatural, but if he believed Branham to be a man of God like I do, then he would have had to have had some belief in the miraculous. I know his translation doesn't seem very pro-miracle in several places (like II Kings 6:6 and the demoniacs being called lunatics) though!

Shlama Akhi SS2:
You should be aware that the meeting and possible ethereal connection between Branham and Lamsa was of no real substance. As a recognized evangelist he would have met many people of position, such as Lamsa. Branham's views were renounced by many Christian protestants as heretical, namely, the doctrine of the serpent seed. Please read more.

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This post is purely to show a little about Branham, from the Wikipedea, and is by no means the full story. The heresy of the serpent's seed, namely the Jews is completely false. He further identified the "angel" of each church as a human messenger. The seven messengers he named as Paul the Apostle, Irenaeus, Martin of Tours, Columba, Martin Luther, John Wesley and at last should be Elijah.By calling Martin Luther one of the seven messengers is a further indication of his Christian Anti-Semitism and/or his lack of true discernment.

italics from Wikipedea.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver
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#3
I know a lot about Branham. One thing a lot of people don't realize about Branham and his false doctrines is that he was illiterate and didn't start falling into false doctrine until after F.F. Bosworth left his ministry. During the beginning of his ministry, Branham as more orthodox. I highly doubt that Branham was an anti-semite. The Serpent Seed doctrine was mainly directed towards African-Americans, and Branham stated that it wasn't motivated by racism. Also, I don't think that it is right to accuse someone of being evil because of their flaws, namely Martin Luther with anti-semitism.
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I know a lot about Branham. One thing a lot of people don't realize about Branham and his false doctrines is that he was illiterate and didn't start falling into false doctrine until after F.F. Bosworth left his ministry. During the beginning of his ministry, Branham as more orthodox. I highly doubt that Branham was an anti-semite. The Serpent Seed doctrine was mainly directed towards African-Americans, and Branham stated that it wasn't motivated by racism. Also, I don't think that it is right to accuse someone of being evil because of their flaws, namely Martin Luther with anti-semitism.

Shlama Akhi SS2:
Later in his life Martin Luther wrote "Concerning the Jews and their Lies".

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Please read Wikipedia as well as other entries on the internet and you will see bare-faced Christian Anti-Semitism. They don't usually teach this in Seminaries and Bible Colleges.

It is not evil slander to tell the truth, only informative, especially when one is dead. Both Branham and Luther are dead.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver,
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I know a lot about Branham. One thing a lot of people don't realize about Branham and his false doctrines is that he was illiterate and didn't start falling into false doctrine until after F.F. Bosworth left his ministry. During the beginning of his ministry, Branham as more orthodox. I highly doubt that Branham was an anti-semite. The Serpent Seed doctrine was mainly directed towards African-Americans, and Branham stated that it wasn't motivated by racism. Also, I don't think that it is right to accuse someone of being evil because of their flaws, namely Martin Luther with anti-semitism.

Shlama Akhi SS2:
Later in his life Martin Luther wrote "Concerning the Jews and their Lies".

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Please read Wikipedia as well as other entries on the internet and you will see bare-faced Christian Anti-Semitism. They don't usually teach this in Seminaries and Bible Colleges.

It is not evil slander to tell the truth, only informative, especially when one is dead. Both Branham and Luther are dead.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver,
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#6
I know you're not slandering, Brother! I know Luther was an anti-semite due to frustration from his failed attempts to convert the Jewish people.
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I know you're not slandering, Brother! I know Luther was an anti-semite due to frustration from his failed attempts to convert the Jewish people.

Shlama Akhi SS2:
Well put, moreover it was the sentiment of the day.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver
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#8
Martin Luther was a great theologian who I believe who God used to get His people out of the Catholic church, but he was still only a man.
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:Martin Luther was a great theologian who I believe who God used to get His people out of the Catholic church, but he was still only a man.

Shlama Akhi SS2:
Wouldn't it have been more profitable to fulfill his first love of reforming from within the Roman Catholic Church? I believe that this is Alaha's will always. Then there would not be division, splinter groups, denominations, lost Christians and all of the abominations that ensue from such a gross division. No, Luther was just more verbal about the situation at hand than many Christians who saw the same that he saw. Didn't James say faith without works is dead. Martin Luther hated the Book of James and wanted to remove it from the New Testament Canon. He quoted "the just shall live by faith alone when the text does not use the word alone. Works must accompany faith as the Apostle James said. It is for this reason that the Reformers had no clear solution. They have been splintering into smaller and smaller denominations since Luther's 95 thesesis were made public. Yes, of course he was correct in his condemnation against indulgences but it would have been much more fruitful to affect change from the inside of the Church rather than to split the Holy, Apostolic Catholic Church. Who on earth wants to be called a rebel/protestant, rather than a holy member of the Apostolic Catholic Church. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East has always kept reforms within the Church family, rather than airing its dirty laundry. May our gracious MarYah Alaha bless you and keep you in the centre of His Holy will SS2.

Shlama,
Stephen Silver
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#10
I see what you, mean, Brother Stephen. I don't mean to offend anyone, but through the Roman Catholic Church, Satan almost brought the Church of Christ into oblivion. It became an organization, rather than an organism and a lot of paganism and false doctrine slipped in.
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:I don't mean to offend anyone, but through the Roman Catholic Church, Satan almost brought the Church of Christ into oblivion.
See: Revelation 17:6


ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:Wouldn't it have been more profitable to fulfill his first love of reforming from within the Roman Catholic Church? I believe that this is Alaha's will always. Then there would not be division, splinter groups, denominations, lost Christians and all of the abominations that ensue from such a gross division.
Indeed the Catholic Church gave birth to daughters during the reformation. This had to come to pass in order to fulfill Scripture (Revelation 17:5). "The Beast" as prophesied in the Geneva Bible's footnotes: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?cbs930bejjcbj64">http://www.mediafire.com/?cbs930bejjcbj64</a><!-- m -->
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