<TITLE>20. Par 71-74</TITLE>L-71 Now, I'll take... Every Scripture in the Bible, every person in the Bible, was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. I'll take any man, any historian, to this task: if you can show me one speck of Scripture where anybody was ever baptized in the Bible (new church, 'cause they wasn't baptized in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament), where any persons was ever baptized in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost--one place that that was ever called over them, Father, Son and Holy Ghost--then I'll compromise.

L-72 And if you... and I'll show you... If you can show me one text of Scripture where anybody was ever baptized in the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, or one speck of history where anyone was ever baptized... until the ordaining or the setting in order of the Catholic church in A.D. six hundred... 325 it is, A.D. 325... Three hundred and twenty-five years after the apostles, everybody continued baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost... in the name of Jesus Christ until 325.
And then, they made the organization, and in the organization... which, the Catholic church is the mother of all organizations. God never did organize a church. But in there they substituted the name of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, because the Trinitarians... And then they had a great group that went rank in Trinitarian, and a great group that went rank in unitarian--which both groups was wrong. See? But no... And any person that's baptized using those titles of Father, Son, Holy Ghost, ignorantly, are admitting that they are Catholics and denying what the Bible says.

L-73 Now, my brethren, and you that listen to this tape," I wot that through ignorance you do this." Don't just throw this away, these women, presenting this to you; but you owe it to yourself to set down and study it and find out. If you're not... if you're a child of God, surely you'll give it that much consideration.
The Word of the Lord came to the prophets in the old days. The reason they called them prophets is because they had the interpretation of the divine Word; because they were divinely sent, and the signs and wonders that followed them proved that they were. God has said in His Scripture, "If there be a prophet among you, and if he says things and it's not right, don't come to pass, then don't fear him. But if it does come to pass, then you hear him, for I am with Him." And the very word "prophet" means a divine interpreter of the divine Word. The signs and wonders that makes the Word manifest is a sign that it came. Now, we believe that the gift of prophecy that ties the words together are the same...

L-74 Now, not long ago--and maybe the same man may listen to this tape someday, that I, that--that this taken place. It was Brother Scism of the Oneness. Now, you... Many of you people listening to this would say, "Brother Branham is a Oneness." I am not. I think you're both wrong, both oneness and trinity. Not to be different, but it's always the middle of the road.
Like Isaiah said, Isaiah 35 said, "There shall be a highway." And you Nazarene brothers, and so forth, you say."The grand old highway of holiness." I beg your pardon. it doesn't say the highway of holiness. It says, "There shall be a highway and ("and" is a conjunction) and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness." Not the highway of holiness. The way is in the middle of the road. Each side is where the off-falls is found. That's where you Oneness brethren went to on one side, Trinitarian went on the other side, but the true message lays in the center of the road.


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