This is a compilation of quotes and Scriptures showing Brother Branham’s teaching and why it was not Oneness. This is not intended to see the whole picture of the doctrine, but to see the places where Brother Branham did emphasize the distinction between Father and Son.
“53. They couldn’t understand Him. He was a Mystery, even to the Apostles. No one could understand Him, because there was two People talking all the time. The Person Jesus Christ was talking, and God was talking in Him, also. Sometimes it was Christ Himself; sometimes it was the Father that dwelt in Him. You see it? He… they couldn’t understand some things He would say; He talked in riddles to them.” [1]
“525. And in this marvelous teaching here of Saint Paul, in the backgrounds, in the former chapters, he has specifically been dealing with the supreme Deity of the Lord Jesus and who He was. Christ was God, made so that men could feel Him and touch Him, and—and fellowship with Him. Christ, the Lord Jesus, was the body that God dwelt in, “God was made flesh and dwelt among us.” First Timothy 3:16, “Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness, for God was manifested in flesh.”
526. The great Jehovah came down and was made tangible, by living in the body of His Own Son, declaring and reconciling the world to Himself. God was nothing…Christ was nothing short of God, and—and God was nothing short of Christ. The two together made the Godhead bodily, made a little lower than Angels, so that He could suffer. Angels cannot suffer. Jesus was the Tabernacle that God dwelt in.” [2]
“16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me. 17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.” John 8:16-18 KJV
“17. And now, the lamb… We want to talk about these two natures, and these two beasts, or bird, one beast and one a bird. And how that God and Christ was represented in these two beings.” [3]
“219. If God is one personality, why or how could He talk to Himself on Mount Transfiguration?
375. Well, I’ve just explained that, you see. See? I’d like to ask you this. I’m going to…When Jesus prayed to the Father, you see.
[Brother Branham begins speaking to a brother in the congregation—Ed.] I believe you have the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Don’t you, brother? Won’t you stand up just a minute. You claim to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost? [The brother says, “Yes, sir.”] I do, too. Then, what is that? Then I don’t claim that I have the—I have the powers within myself to unfold these mysteries. I don’t have the power to heal the sick. It’s God.
376. [Brother Branham continues speaking to the brother in the congregation—Ed.] I believe you’re a minister. If I’m not mistaken, you’re from Arkansas. All right, now. And in you, you have, is—is to preach the Gospel. Ordinarily, you was raised on a farm and around like that. You just don’t know nothing about it; but Something come into you, to preach the Gospel. You don’t claim that to be yourself, at all. That’s another Person, called the Holy Ghost. Is that right? [“Yes, sir.”] Okay.
377. [Brother Branham continues speaking to the brother in the congregation—Ed.] Now I want to ask you. Do…That Holy Ghost dwells within you. Is that right? [The brother says, “That’s right.”] Do you talk to Him? [“Yes, sir.”] Speak to Him? Pray to Him? All right. That’s all I want. Thank you, very much.
See? Now you get it? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.]
378. I’ll ask you one. How did it come that when…Jesus, in Saint John 3, He said, “When the Son of man shall be, which now is in Heaven.” See? “Now is in Heaven; shall re-…come to earth.” See? “The Son of man which now is in Heaven,” and here He stood right here talking to the person. Now you answer me that one. Jesus and the Father was the self-same Person.
379. Just the same as the Holy Spirit in me; you’re looking to me preaching, but it’s not me.
It’s not me can speak a word that could bring, as you know, an animal; sit there and look at it, and kill the animal and eat it. That’s creative power. That doesn’t lay in a human being.
380. It’s not me could take a little boy here, laying…The doctors laying him on his back, with heart trouble, tonight. And say, “Thus saith William Branham”? No. “THUS SAITH THE LORD, it’s finished.” And bring him down to the doctor, the next day, and it’s all gone.
381. A kid with leukemia, till its eyes are bulged out, and yellow all over, the stomach; until they’re taking it to the hospital, to give it blood and things, to even get it here. And in five minutes’ time, cry for a hamburger! And take it back to the doctor, the next day, and can’t even find a trace of it. That’s “Thus saith William Branham”? That’s “THUS SAITH THE LORD!” Yet, He is an individual different from me, but the only way He is expressed is through me. See?
382. That’s how Jesus and the Father was. Jesus said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works; it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me.”” [4]
“53. He said, “For My…” That’s the reason people couldn’t understand Him. Sometime it was Christ speaking… or was the Son speaking. Other times it was the Father speaking. He was a dual Person. He was one Man, the Son. God was in him, which was tabernacling in Him. But what did He do? Did He go around saying, “I’m the Healer.” Very contrary, He said, “I’m not the Healer.” He said, “It isn’t Me that doth the works; it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me.”” [5]
“Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” 2 John 1:9 KJV
“Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” Luke 22:42 KJV
“110. Now remember, we are not the Word, but we are the Word. Uh-huh! Now you got it? Jesus was not God, but He was God. He was a Man, yet He was God. He could cry, and yet He could raise the dead. He could cry for a man being dead and raise him back up again. He was Jehovah-jireh, Jehovah-rapha, Jehovah Manasses; He was Jehovah, all completely. He was Jehovah, and yet He was a Man. He owned the earth, and made the earth, and had not a place to lay His head.” [6]
“239. Now look. What was their fuss with Jesus? Their fuss with Jesus, because He was a Man making Himself God. He was God. God was in Christ. See? And He told them. He said, “And don’t look at Me. It’s not Me. It’s My Father, and He dwells in Me.” Oh! See?
240. Now, they was looking at that little body that was born of Mary. See? That wasn’t God. That was the Son of God, but God was in that Body. It was God. He said, “If I do not the works of My Father, then condemn Me. But which one of you can condemn Me of sin, unbelief of the Word? Which Word has God spoke that hasn’t been fulfilled in Me?”” [7]
“They said, “He couldn’t be Deity and die.” The Man (the body) was not Deity, but Deity was in the body.” [8]
“63. Please explain the trinity. How can the Son set at the right hand of the Father, interceeding for the…to the Father, if they are not two persons?
435. Well, beloved friend, that’s a…that’s—that’s a revelation. If Jesus said, “I and My Father are one,” then how can they be two? See? Now, they’re not two.
436. A woman once said to me, and I was explaining that, said, “You and your wife are—are two, yet you’re one.”
437. I said, “But, God and the Son is different from that, see.” I said, “You see me?”
“Yes.”
“Do you see my wife?”
“No.”
438. I said, “Then, Father and Son’s different; Jesus said, ‘When you see Me, you’ve seen the Father.’” See?
439. The Father and the Son…The Father was Almighty Jehovah (God) dwelling in a tabernacle called Jesus Christ, which was the anointed Son of God. Jesus was a man, God is a Spirit. And no man has seen. God at any time, but the only begotten of the Father has declared Him. He was…He…His personality, His being, His Deity, whatever He was, He was God! He was nothing less or nothing more than God. Yet, He was a man. He was a man, a house that God dwelt in. That’s right, He was God’s dwelling place.” [9]
“But, “This had no beginning or had any end.” And he did not say he met a priesthood. He met a Man, and called His Name “Melchisedec.” He was a Person, not a denomination, not a—a—a priesthood or a fatherhood. He was absolutely a Man by the Name of Melchisedec, who was the King of Jerusalem. Not a priesthood, but a King without a father. Priesthoods don’t have father. “And this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life.” Now, the Son of God…
25. Who this was, this was Jehovah. This was Almighty God Himself. It could be no other.
26. Now notice, “He abideth forever.” He has a testimony here, that, “He liveth. He never dies.” He never did…He never was nothing else but alive. “He abideth forever.”
27. Now, Jesus was made, likened unto Him. Now, the reason that there’s a difference between God and Jesus: Jesus had a beginning; God had no beginning. Melchisedec had no beginning, and Jesus had a beginning. But Jesus was made, likened unto Him. “A priest, abideth forever.”” [10]
“306. And this Melchisedec was not Jesus, for He was God. And what made Jesus and God different, that, Jesus was the Tabernacle that God dwelt in. See? Now, Melchisedec. Jesus had both father and mother. And this Man never had father or mother. Jesus had a beginning of life and He had an end of life. This Man had no father, no mother, no beginning of days or ending of life. But, It was the selfsame Person. It was, Melchisedec and Jesus was One; but Jesus was the earthly body, born and fashioned after sin.” [11]
“But watch Abraham (just in closing now). What a beautiful thing it was. When Abraham returned from the slaughter of the kings, watch what happened. Melchisedec come out to meet him. Melchisedec, which was the King of Salem, the King of peace, the King of righteousness.
72. Who was He? He had no father; He had no mother. He wasn’t Jesus, ’cause Jesus had both father and mother. But this Man had no father, had no mother. If you want to run that down, take Hebrews, 7th chapter. He had no father, no mother, never did begin Life and never did end Life. He was the King of Salem, which was the King of Jerusalem, which is King of peace, which is King of righteousness; without mother, without father, without descent, with neither beginning of years or ending of Life.
It was God. Sure it was. He came down in the form of Melchisedec.” [12]
“A Priest, which was Christ, it was God; no one else could be Melchizedec but Christ Himself, God Himself, rather, see, God Himself, because he was without father and without mother. See? Jesus had both father and mother, see. So this Man was without father, without mother, without beginning of days or ending of life.” [13]
“176. Here’s the Message we have here. Jesus was Jehovah inveiled in flesh, come down inveiled. Now, God (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) is not like your finger, one, like some people thinks it. The whole thing’s just like…No, God is…” [14]
“And the Holy Ghost was a mascot boy like. There’s no such things. There’s only one God. And I different agree with the organization of Pentecost that calls the Oneness like your finger is one. That’s wrong. Absolutely, it’s wrong.
God… Jesus couldn’t have been His Own Father, and if God is a Man, then Jesus was born sexual desire and not virgin birth. That settles the whole thing. You see? If He’s one like your finger’s one, then what? Then He was His Own daddy. How could He have been? That’s wrong. He had a Father, Jesus did.” [15]
“145. Now, the oneness teaching of the Oneness church, I certainly disagree with that, thinking that Jesus is one like your finger is one. He had to have a father. If He didn’t, how could He be His own father? And if His Father was a man like the trinitarian says, then he was born a illegitimate birth with two fathers. So, you see, you’re both wrong by arguing. See?” [16]
“211. God only had one Name, and His Name is Jesus. That was His Son, He took the Name of His Son. God! Now, Jesus, the body was a man. We know that. That was the Son of God that was overshadowed. Now we do not believe in a oneness type, the people that says God’s like your finger.” [17]
“72. Now, here you get God in just exactly, and between the oneness and trinity you’ll get the thing just exactly right now.” [18]
“307. And I’m not a oneness. No, sir. You trinitarian people get that away from you. I am not a oneness. No, sir. I’m not a oneness, neither a trinitarian. I believe what the Bible says.” [19]
“196. Now somebody says, “Brother Branham is a oneness.” No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that Jesus could be His own father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that was God. But God dwelled and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was Immanuel, God with us. And there’s no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Father, the Lord; Son, Jesus; Holy Ghost, Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Lord Jesus Christ; that’s Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” [20]
“142. God Almighty, the Father, dwelt in Him. At the day of the baptism, when He received the Holy Ghost on the day when John baptized Him, John said, “I beheld and saw the Spirit of God, like a Dove, descending from Heaven, and a Voice saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.’” Jesus said that God was with Him, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me.” Not Jesus, and being one with God; but God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.
143. And you Oneness brethren, many of you get off the wrong track when you try to think that God is one like your finger is one. He can’t be His Own Father. He can’t be.” [21]
“211. “And if the Oneness, you disagree with the Oneness because of their ‘one’ standing, like that.” Yes, sir. Jesus had a Father. He was God. They baptize in the Name of “Jesus.” I baptize in the Name of “the Lord Jesus Christ.”” [22]
“96. And a many Oneness of the…Now, I’m not Oneness. I don’t believe in the “oneness” the way they do. I don’t believe in Jesus like they’ll say, “Jesus”; there is a lot of Jesuses. It’s the Lord Jesus Christ.” [23]
“71. Now, I’m not a… don’t… And I say… And some people say, “He’s a ‘Jesus Only,’” You’re mistaken there. I wouldn’t have that kind of a spirit on me. There that dogmatic, ungodly thing that… No, sir. I’m not Oneness. Not at all. I’m not trinity either. I’m a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in God manifested in three offices. Now His office is in my heart, in your heart.” [24]
“And when Jesus, a carpenter’s Son, physically speaking, when He come to the earth here that’s all He was known of, and the day that when John baptized Him, God a vindicated Him. God spoke from the heavens. John saw Him coming in the form a dove, and said, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell.” The right translation there is, “In whom I am pleased to dwell in.” Jesus immediately anointed with God, He was just a man till that time, but now He becomes the God-man.” [25]
“He was anointed with the Holy Spirit, was in Him. “John bare record, seeing God descending out of heaven like a dove, a voice saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.’” And He dwelt in Christ. God, Jehovah, the Father dwelt in His Son Jesus Christ, tabernacled there, manifesting Himself, showing the world what He was.” [26]
“And then when He did, He created; overshadowed a little virgin named Mary. God, Jehovah did, and created in her womb a cell, Blood cell. That Blood cell developed cells, and it brought forth a Man, which was Christ Jesus.
142. God Almighty, the Father, dwelt in Him. At the day of the baptism, when He received the Holy Ghost on the day when John baptized Him, John said, “I beheld and saw the Spirit of God, like a Dove, descending from Heaven, and a Voice saying, ‘This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.’” Jesus said that God was with Him, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwells in Me.” Not Jesus, and being one with God; but God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.
143. And you Oneness brethren, many of you get off the wrong track when you try to think that God is one like your finger is one. He can’t be His Own Father. He can’t be.” [27]
“And when He was baptized, going straightway out of the water, we find that the Holy Spirit, God, like in a form of a dove, coming from heaven in a voice, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell.” And the right translation of that, “Who I am pleased to dwell in,” ’cause God was in Christ.
40. And now, when He came down upon Him He become the Anointed One, the Messiah.” [28]
“A form of a Dove came down from heaven, and a voice coming from that form of Dove (the Spirit of God), a voice coming from the Spirit of God, which the—the Dove was the Spirit of God, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I am well pleased.” Now, that’s the—the King James version. Now, in the original version is something the same thing. It says, “in whom I’m pleased to dwell in,” and God dwelt in Christ. We know that.
He said, “It’s not Me that doeth the works. It’s My Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.” Saint John 5:19, He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, the Son can do nothing in himself, but what He sees the Father doing: that doeth the Son likewise.”” [29]
“And a voice come from it, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom, in Whom I am pleased to dwell.” And if I was going to make it so you’d understand it better, that the early translators in King James… If you get the original Greek, it reads like this: “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.” But you see, it’s the same thing. “In whom I’m pleased to dwell.” See? “I am pleased to dwell in My Son.” Then He became Emmanuel, God with us.” [30]
“341. The God Himself, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.” God and man becoming One.” [31]
“227. John the Baptist looked away one day, and, when he did, he saw a Dove; and a Voice, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell in.” That’s what he saw. Then, he saw Jesus and God being the same Person, ’cause the Spirit come down from Heaven like a Dove, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I am pleased to dwell.”” [32]
“Because He was the manifestation of all the Word of the prophet, and He was the fullness of the Word. The Word was in Him, all the Word. He was Emmanuel, “God manifested in flesh.”
88. God come down in the form of the Holy Spirit, two wings like a dove settling down and went upon Him, saying, “This is My beloved Son in whom I am pleased to dwell in.” Now the King James there says, “In whom I am pleased to dwell.” What difference does it make, “In whom I’m pleased to dwell,” or, “Who I’m pleased to dwell in”? See? “In Whom I’m pleased to dwell.” There it was, God in man, heaven and earth come together. God and man united. The greatest hour, till that time, there was on the earth, or ever had been.” [33]
“But, in Christ, He is God’s Tabernacle. He is the place that God came into, Himself, and dwelt in Him. “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.” There is where God tabernacled, brought His Name and placed It upon, Jesus Christ. Therefore, His Name was put in a Man, His Son, Jesus Christ, in which He tabernacled Himself, and in that Tabernacle.” [34]
“179. Now watch when Jesus come, watch what He did to prove Himself to be that Messiah, that Anointed One. One day, after He had received…The Father had came down and dwelt in Him, in the form of a dove coming down from Heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am pleased to dwell in.”
180. That’s the reason He said, “I and My Father are One. My Father dwelleth in Me. It’s not Me that doeth the works; it’s My Father that dwelleth in Me.”
181. John bear record, seeing that Spirit of God, like a dove, descending. A Voice coming from It, saying, “This is My beloved Son in Whom I’m pleased to dwell.” See, and He dwelt in Him.” [35]
“110. Now, this Logos that was in Him, which was the Spirit of God, the Anointing, through the sanctifying grace of the Blood, brought many sons to God, which is anointed with this same Logos.” [36]
“80. Said, “There is the Messiah, I see a Light above Him, like a dove coming upon Him,” bore record. Said, “He that told me in the wilderness, ‘Go baptize with water,’ said, ‘Upon Whom thou shall see the Spirit, that Light, like a dove coming down.’” Was perhaps the same Pillar of Fire that followed the children of Israel in the wilderness, coming upon Him, because that was the Anointed, the Logos. Came upon Him, and he said, “I bear record, this is the Messiah!”” [37]
“91. In the garden of Gethsemane, the anointing left Him, you know, He had to die as a sinner. He died a sinner, you know that; not His sins, but mine and yours.” [38]
“241. The Spirit
left Him, in the Garden of Gethsemane. He had to die, a man. Remember, friends,
He didn’t have to do that. That was God. God anointed that flesh, which was
human flesh. And He didn’t…If He’d a went up there, as God, He’d have never
died that kind of death; can’t kill God.” [39]
[1] 55-0302 , The Resurrected Lord Jesus, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[2] 57-0915m , Hebrews, Chapter Six #3, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[3] 57-0325 , The Lamb And The Dove, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[4] 63-0324m , Questions And Answers On The Seals, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[5] 56-0429 , Jehovah-Jireh, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[6] 64-0830m , Questions And Answers #3, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[7] 62-1104m , Blasphemous Names, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[8] 63-1222 , God’s Gifts Always Find Their Places, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[9] 57-1002 , Questions And Answers On Hebrews #2, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[10] 57-0915e , Hebrews, Chapter Seven #1, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[11] 57-0922e , Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[12] 61-0209 , Jehovah-Jireh, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[13] 64-0112 , Shalom, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[14] 53-0729 , Questions And Answers On Genesis, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[15] 53-0907a , Lord, Show Us The Father And It Sufficeth Us, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[16] 57-0925 , Questions And Answers On Hebrews #1, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[17] 60-0522m , Adoption #3, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[18] 53-0729 ,Questions And Answers On Genesis, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[19] 54-0515 , Questions And Answers, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[20] 59-0628e, Questions And Answers, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[21] 59-0823, Palmerworm, Locust, Cankerworm, Caterpillar, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[22] 59-0823, Palmerworm, Locust, Cankerworm, Caterpillar, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[23] 60-1206 , The Smyrnaean Church Age, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[24] 61-0318 , Abraham’s Covenant Confirmed, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[25] 55-0806 , Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[26] 59-0404 , What Is The Works Of God?, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[27] 59-0823, Palmerworm, Locust, Cankerworm, Caterpillar, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[28] 61-0118 , Jesus Christ The Same Yesterday, Today, And Forever, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[29] 62-0627 , We Would See Jesus, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[30] 62-0724 , Sir, We Would See Jesus, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[31] 63-0728 , Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[32] 63-1229e , Look Away To Jesus, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[33] 64-0214 , The Voice Of The Sign, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[34] 65-0220 , God’s Chosen Place Of Worship, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[35] 65-0427 ,Does God Change His Mind?, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[36] 64-0823e , Questions And Answers #2, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[37] 64-0304 , Sirs, We Would See Jesus, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[38] 60-0518, Adoption #2, Rev. William Marrion Branham
[39] 65-0418m , It Is The Rising Of The Sun, Rev. William Marrion Branham