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Message believers have stated that since nothing of any biblical substance can be empirically “proven”, faith is required in order to treat any of it as fact. It is therefore reckless to hold William Branham to a different standard, and therefore, illogical to expect his followers to abandon belief in him on the basis of factual evidence. | Message believers have stated that since nothing of any biblical substance can be empirically “proven”, faith is required in order to treat any of it as fact. It is therefore reckless to hold William Branham to a different standard, and therefore, illogical to expect his followers to abandon belief in him on the basis of factual evidence. | ||
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It’s completely insane. | It’s completely insane. | ||
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< | And their mind will never bring them to God. Your mind is reasonings. And God has no reasonings.<ref>THE.UNCERTAIN.SOUND_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-19 SUNDAY_ 55-0731</ref> | ||
''See, that's what Cain did; he reasoned. That's what Korah did; he reasoned. It's not him that reasons. | |||
''"We cast down reasonings." We believe God, no matter what anything else says. We believe God. We don't reason what God says. You can't reason with It. You have to accept It by faith. And anything that you know, you don't have to reason any more.<ref>DOES.GOD.EVER.CHANGE.HIS.MIND.ABOUT.HIS.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-9 SUNDAY_ 65-0418E</ref> | |||
''Because, we go beyond reasoning. "Lean not to your own understanding." Faith doesn't reason at all. Faith believes It.<ref>AND.KNOWETH.IT.NOT_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0815</ref> | |||
''Notice, we cannot, we must not, listen to any other man's word. We don't care how smart, how educated. The Bible, in Proverbs, says, "We must cast down reasonings." See? Now, here in this second realm... | |||
''First realm is your senses of see, taste, feel, smell, and hear. That's in your outer body. | |||
On the inner body, which is the spirit, is reasonings and thought, and so forth. We must cast all that down.<ref>CHRIST.IS.REVEALED.IN.HIS.OWN.WORD_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-10 SUNDAY_ 65-0822M</ref> | |||
''I said, "I never asked you to argue, but the Bible does say, 'Come, let us reason together.'"<ref>EVENTS.MADE.CLEAR.BY.PROPHECY_ JEFF.IN V-12 N-3 SUNDAY_ 65-0801E</ref> | |||
''Then, Satan got Eve to listen to his gospel of theology, the gospel of knowledge, higher schooling, higher ethics, better civilization, higher education, and so forth; then when he got the... her to stop and listen to him a minute, to '''his reasonings (which we are commanded to cast down)''', when he got her to listen to it.<ref>SATAN'S.EDEN_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-20 SUNDAY_ 65-0829</ref> | |||
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