<TITLE>05. Par -</TITLE>L-156-36 And for... This is nearly twenty something years I've stood right here and asked any minister, at any time, to come and take, not your textbook, your creed, but come take the Bible (in the Light of the Bible) and prove It wrong. See? That's right.
And about contradictions, they say "Contradictions..." I've offered as much as two-months' wages if someone will show me one contradiction in the Bible. It's not there. You think it's there, but it isn't. If the Bible contradicts Itself, it's no good at all; you can't believe It. Every Word's inspired, and there's no contradiction in the Bible.

L-156-38 Now, the Protestant church in its organization, is (according to God's Word) connected the same thing with the Catholic church.
Now, I have nothing against Catholic people. Some of my dearest friends setting right here now, has...?... of Catholic people. Here, last--night before last, when I gave a harsh message that through the Holy Spirit all Protestant and Catholic, the Catholic walked right here at the altar and shook my hand. They're human beings just the same as we are.
You can't discuss with Catholic priests, because they don't believe this Bible to be all the Word; they say it's the church; we say it's the Bible.
The Catholic said, "We Catholics go to church and worship; you Protestants stay home and read the Bible."
I said, "Yeah, you go to church and worship, but what?" That's the next thing. See?

L-156-43 Now, but God said He was in His Word. This is God's Word and I believe It. I'm a Bible worshipper. That's the reason I disagree with Protestantism and of--and the way of--of this church organization, because they teach things that isn't the Word of God. So I can't help from disagreeing. I don't fall out with them; no, sir, they're my brethren. And I don't fall out with them, but I disagree with them, because I have to take what God says and let everything else be a lie. See?

L-157-44 And now, that's the connection that... And now the Bible said that this woman, the Catholic church, which was supposed to be called in the Bible, Revelations the 17th chapter, "A whore, and she was the mother of harlots."... And we see that the Bible said that a woman represented a church. So then if she had daughters that's harlots, it couldn't have been boys; it'd have had to be daughters, so it had to be churches. And Protestantism was born out of Catholicism.

L-157-45 And now, the next beast... Or, the next thing is this here:
What does the image of the beast mean?
It's--it's a joint question to that, and the person who asked it has a good question. What make now, if... The Bible clearly teaches that the Catholic church is the--the beast. The Bible said that a "beast" means "a power." Is that right? A beast, the Bible says that the beast meant a power. And the beast was the Vatican City, the Catholic hierarchy. All right. And now, that was the power of the church that was the beast.
Then the Protestant church come out of the Catholic church, and organized themselves a little power. That is a image.

L-157-48 If anything... If something was made in my image, it'd have to look like me. If something made in the image of this church, it'd have to look like the church.
Something was made, a beast--made a image unto this beast, which was Lutherism, Methodistism, Baptistism, Pentecostalism, Holinessism; all them isms formed up into an organization and made an image just like the beast. There it is.
Now, "Do you say then, Brother Branham, that all Catholics, all Methodists, and all Baptists are going?" I didn't say that.
There's thousands and thousands, and tens of thousands of born-again Christians in those churches. But in their organization they're trying to drive them to a creed, and they won't stand for it. A--a church when it organizes, it comes under a creed.


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