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William Branham also taught that people follow the nature of their parents. Adam was a son of God, and Eve was a daughter of God. The creation of God could not have any evil in it. If Cain was the son of Adam and Eve, he would have been righteous like all the other sons of Adam and Eve, from Seth to Noah. Why was Cain a liar and a murderer? It was because he was like his father. | William Branham also taught that people follow the nature of their parents. Adam was a son of God, and Eve was a daughter of God. The creation of God could not have any evil in it. If Cain was the son of Adam and Eve, he would have been righteous like all the other sons of Adam and Eve, from Seth to Noah. Why was Cain a liar and a murderer? It was because he was like his father. | ||
William Branham was also well aware of the potential racist connections of the doctrine, but | William Branham was also well aware of the potential racist connections of the doctrine, but preached against aligning these racist interpretations with his teachings. William Branham also preached and prayed with equal sincerity for people of different races, and was himself a quarter Cherokee. | ||
:"The colored race is off of the same tree that we're off of, and every human being: the same one." There's no difference. Exactly. We're just all... One may be yellow, and the other one brown, the other one black, and the other one white, and the other one pale, and the other one red, and just like that, but you're all from that same tree. That's just the physical part out here. That's right. You're human beings just the same, created here by God." ([http://www.nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=116 Questions And Answers On Genesis, Wednesday, July 29, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana, COD Book] | [http://www.thefreeword.com/mp3/53-0729.mp3 MP3]) | :''"The colored race is off of the same tree that we're off of, and every human being: the same one." There's no difference. Exactly. We're just all... One may be yellow, and the other one brown, the other one black, and the other one white, and the other one pale, and the other one red, and just like that, but you're all from that same tree. That's just the physical part out here. That's right. You're human beings just the same, created here by God." ''([http://www.nathan.co.za/message.asp?sermonum=116 Questions And Answers On Genesis, Wednesday, July 29, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana, COD Book] | [http://www.thefreeword.com/mp3/53-0729.mp3 MP3]) | ||