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:'' | :''So don’t try to use your own intellectuals, use your heart. Now remember, '''you don’t never try to reason; we cast down reasoning.''' In the garden of Eden, the devil took a man’s head to work through; God took a man’s heart. And the man’s always working to what he can see, and faith makes him believe things he cannot see. But he believes it because God said so. That settles it. That’s just the—the story of faith.<ref>William Branham, 59-0423 - Abraham's Seed, para. 29</ref> | ||
But William Branham appears to be misquoting the 1890 Darby translation of 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 which states: | :''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. '''Can’t reason''', say, “Now wait, if God is a good God…” And we’re told so much today that He is. “If He is a good God, then if I be sincere, though I can’t see that in that Bible being right, though I be sincere, I’ll be saved.” You’ll be lost. <ref>William Branham, 65-0822M - Christ Is Revealed In His Own Word, para. 130</ref> | ||
But William Branham appears to be misquoting the 1890 Darby translation (although William Branham never mentions Darby... ever) of 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 which states: | |||
:''For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds; '''overthrowing reasonings''' and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ...<ref>John Nelson Darby, The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, 1996), 2 Co 10:4–5.</ref> | :''For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds; '''overthrowing reasonings''' and every high thing that lifts itself up against the knowledge of God, and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ...<ref>John Nelson Darby, The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages (Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, 1996), 2 Co 10:4–5.</ref> | ||
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:''That's how you know God is by faith, NOT BY REASON. Your reason power within yourself, but faith comes from God. Faith is something that's born in you, something that God gives you. "And it's the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not | :''That's how you know God is by faith, NOT BY REASON. Your reason power within yourself, but faith comes from God. Faith is something that's born in you, something that God gives you. "And it's the substance of things hoped for, and '''the evidence of things not REASONE'''D." Hallelujah.<ref>54-1024 THE.UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFFERSONVILLE.IN</ref> | ||
William Branham changes scripture (again) to suit his anti-intellectual bias. | William Branham changes scripture (again) to suit his anti-intellectual bias. | ||