Bona Fide Testimonies for Sale!
- 2 years ago
Following the pattern of John Alexander Dowie and others, William Branham claimed to have “bona fide” testimonies. Listeners assumed that his stories were real based solely on his claim to have had the “healings” verified by doctors and lawyers, and it wasn’t until after the revival ended and Branham left town that ministers such as Alfred Pohl realized that they had been conned.
Dowie carried a satchel full of what he called a “sample” of these testimonies and shared them with his crowd. Branham and others in the healing revival published their “samples” in the Voice of Healing and Herald of Faith magazines and sold them. By the 1950s, Branham claimed that he had collected enough of these “bona fide” testimonies to fill boxes. Yet no one has ever seen these “boxes”, and they are curiously missing from the historical displays at Branham’s cult headquarters in Jeffersonville.
Where this becomes interesting is when Branham promoted the poison and snake-handling doctrine in September of 1953. Branham claimed that to win souls, Roy E. Davis drank sulfuric acid in a revival, but the statement was made inclusive and in present tense. Referring to himself and Davis, he said, “we got a notary public’s statement on this”, which would suggest that he and Roy Davis were still a team for Davis’ Pentecostal Baptist Church of God cult in 1953
You can learn this and more on william-branham.org
Alfred Pohl:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/alfred_pohl
Snake Handling and Poison Doctrine:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/snake_handling_and_poison
Roy E. Davis:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/roy_e._davis
Pentecostal Baptist Church of God Cult:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/pentecostal_baptist_church
Dowie carried a satchel full of what he called a “sample” of these testimonies and shared them with his crowd. Branham and others in the healing revival published their “samples” in the Voice of Healing and Herald of Faith magazines and sold them. By the 1950s, Branham claimed that he had collected enough of these “bona fide” testimonies to fill boxes. Yet no one has ever seen these “boxes”, and they are curiously missing from the historical displays at Branham’s cult headquarters in Jeffersonville.
Where this becomes interesting is when Branham promoted the poison and snake-handling doctrine in September of 1953. Branham claimed that to win souls, Roy E. Davis drank sulfuric acid in a revival, but the statement was made inclusive and in present tense. Referring to himself and Davis, he said, “we got a notary public’s statement on this”, which would suggest that he and Roy Davis were still a team for Davis’ Pentecostal Baptist Church of God cult in 1953
You can learn this and more on william-branham.org
Alfred Pohl:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/alfred_pohl
Snake Handling and Poison Doctrine:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/snake_handling_and_poison
Roy E. Davis:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/roy_e._davis
Pentecostal Baptist Church of God Cult:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/pentecostal_baptist_church