<TITLE>26. Par -</TITLE>L-44-2 Now, look. That's what they did. Instead of the new birth, they have a joining; instead of talking the Word, they have a creed. Show me in the Bible where they ever said a "Hail Mary"; show me in the Bible where you Protestants ever quoted Apostles' Creed. Tell me what the Apostles' creed is in the Bible. Communion of saints, they was against it. Tell me in the Bible where they ever had Father, Son, and Holy Ghost baptism. It's not there, and yet you go for it. See?
Now, now, instead of fellowship and brotherhood amongst brothers, they give them a hierarchy: pope. And you got a bishop tells you what you can do and what you can't; and you Pentecostals has got a district presbyter that tells you who you can have. But the church has Christ. Amen....?...

L-44-3 There's where you come. See? They give you those dogmas and man-made things instead... Taken it away. What's that cankerworm doing? Taking it right off the Tree and give you this. "I'll run that off the Tree and give you this instead; I'll take that off and give you this." See where you got to?
You say, "Well, Brother Branham..."
Where did every one... Where did every Protestant church come from? Catholic. That's what Revelations 13--or Revelation 17 said she would. Said she was a whore and she was a mother of harlots: same thing. So don't... Pot can't call kettle black, you know. So don't--that's it. Don't do it. So that's--that's right.

L-44-5 Brotherhood, took away brotherhood, when we ought to be brothers one with another segregated us and made us different... All right. Now, watch, here's a good one. I'll get this one, and then I'll stop on these others. Look.

L-44-6 The Bible tells us, when we've done wrong that we should purge our souls by the Holy Spirit. Get down; let the Holy Spirit reveal to us that you're doing wrong; and there stay before Him till you die out, purging our souls. Now, they turned around and give you a purgatory after you're dead; then the priest makes a lot of money to pray you out of purgatory.
Why, it's nonsense. That's what the cankerworm done. Sure. Pray you out of purgatory. Cost so many hundred dollars to get this soul prayed out of purgatory. I want you to even find purgatory in the Bible, anything like it. There's no such a thing in the Bible. No, sir. But they give them a purgatory (See?) they--after you're dead. Oh, yes, I know, they--they--they say, sure, you hear them say, "Well, Saint Boniface said so-and-so." I don't care what Saint Boniface said.

L-45-2 "Well, didn't So-and-so say to her, she prayed for her husband, that great sister, Saint So-and-so..."
I don't care what she did. It's unauthoritative Word; it's against the authoritated apostles. God give those apostles to set the church in order; and It's built upon the doctrine of the apostles, not upon Saint Boniface or some saint... It's contrary to the Word.
I don't care what Saint Boniface said, and what other saints, and other saints, and Saint Susie, and Saint Maria, and all those said; it's nonsense. It's no more than any other lie. If it's contrary to God's Word, it's a lie. I don't believe unauthoritary words; that's the reason I don't believe these Protestant creeds and things; it's Catholic to the--to the core. It's dogmas. How can you call Catholics, and make fun of them a having dogmas, when you're full of it yourself? (Not so much here, but this is on tape, you understand. See? It goes all over the world.)


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