2025, JULY 28
Victor Wierwille
Victor Paul Wierwille, founder of The Way International, led a religious movement whose unitarian Godhead doctrine, rejection of the Trinity, and emphasis on distinct manifestations or offices of God closely paralleled certain versions of William Branham's theology. His association with George Lamsa and promotion of the idea that the New Testament was originally written in Aramaic connected him directly to Branham's later use and endorsement of the Lamsa Bible, especially after Wierwille and associates met Branham in 1957 and Lamsa completed major translation work in Wierwille's home. Former-member accounts of The Way's authoritarian small-group structure, sexual misconduct, and doctrines that allegedly framed sexual access as service to leadership place Wierwille's movement within the broader landscape of cultic religious systems that blended anti-Trinitarian theology, charismatic authority, alternative scripture claims, and abusive control over followers.
