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 =Is this scriptural?=
-The phrase "under the blood" is found nowhere in the Bible.  It is a general reference to the blood of the Passover Lamb in Exodus 12:23:
+The phrase "under the blood" is found nowhere in the Bible.  We believe it is a general reference to the blood of the Passover Lamb in Exodus 12:23:
 :''When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. <ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ex 12:23.</ref>
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 There is no passage in the New Testament that talks about taking a person out from under the blood, and so we must conclude that the concept is not Biblical.
-=What William Branham taught=
+=So what are they talking about?=
 William Branham equated being "born again" with being "under the blood".  But he also went beyond that when he stated:
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 :''Believers stays under the Blood.''' That's right. It's the only place to stay of safety. <ref>William Branham,  62-0728 - God Has A Provided Way, para. 48</ref>
-This seems to infer that a Christian could take themselves "out from under the blood."
+This seems to infer that a Christian could take themselves "out from under the blood" which also has no basis in scripture.
-He also stated that being under the blood required a person to be in William Branham's message:
+William Branham also stated that being under the blood required a person to be in William Branham's message:
 :''We are come together to get in the Message.''' And the Message is Christ, He is the Word. That's right. We're to get into It, get beneath It. Yes, sir. That's what we're supposed to do.  '''He was not responsible for any persons out from under the blood...'''
-This is clearly a false teaching.  When we are "sprinkled by the blood", scripture is referring to the blood of Christ.
+This is clearly false teaching.  When we are "sprinkled by the blood", the Bible is referring to the blood of Christ.
 ==The Bible as an idol==
-William Branham stated that
+William Branham stated that the Bible was "''God in print form. You're no more than your word. God is no more than His Word.''"<ref>William Branham, 64-0318 - Sir, We Would See Jesus, para. 16</ref>.  He also referred to it as "''the dripping, Bloody Word... the Word of God bleeding Blood.''"<ref>William Branham, 65-1205 - Things That Are To Be, para. 62</ref>
-But that is "bibliolatry", literally, making the Bible an idol. Many argue that bibliolatry takes place whenever faith in the Bible is placed over faith in Christ.<ref>Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 328.</ref>
+But this is an incorrect view of the Bible.  What does the Bible say about itself?
+:1 Tim. 3:16-17 - ''All Scripture is God-breathed and is '''useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,''' so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.''</ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 2 Ti 3:16–17.
+:1 Cor. 2:13 - ''This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), 1 Co 2:13.</ref>
+:Rom. 15:4 - ''For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide '''we might have hope'''.<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Ro 15:4.</ref>
+"Bibliolatry", literally means making the Bible an idol. Many argue that bibliolatry takes place whenever faith in the Bible is placed over faith in Christ.<ref>Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy, Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 328.</ref>
+Charles Spurgeon acknowledged this when he said:
+:''...you can make an idol of your Bible by using the mere words as a substitute for God’s voice to you. The book is to help you to remember God, but if you stick in the mere letter, and get not to God at all, you misuse the sacred word.<ref>C. H. Spurgeon, “The Fair Portrait of a Saint,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 26 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1880), 154.</ref>
+We may make the house of God an idol temple. We may make the Bible itself a mere idol. We may dispossess the heart of love by almost welcoming the spirit of fear.<ref>Joseph Parker, The People’s Bible: Discourses upon Holy Scripture, Joshua–Judges 5, vol. V (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, Publishers, 1887), 188.</ref>  And the message of William Branham is filled with fear.
+William Branham's view of the Bible was not correct.  When the Bible says in John 1:1 that "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God<ref>The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Jn 1:1.</ref>," it is not stating that the Bible was in the beginning.
+You cannot limit God to what he has revealed to us about himself in the Bible.
+The Bible did not bleed for me.  Jesus did.  The Bible is not "God in print" but it is the revelation to me of who God is.
 =Biblical references=