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William Branham | William Branham taught that God's original plan did not intend children to be born by sex. | ||
=What the Bible teaches= | |||
It was clearly God's intent that men and women would produce children together: | |||
:''And '''God blessed them'''. And '''God said to them''', “Be fruitful and '''multiply and fill the earth''' and subdue it...<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 1:28.</ref> | |||
=What William Branham taught= | =What William Branham taught= | ||
William Branham taught that it was not God's perfect will for children to be born on the earth through sex. He believed that God's original plan for children to be created from the dust, just as God created Adam. | William Branham taught that it was not God's perfect will for children to be born on the earth through sex. He believed that God's original plan for children to be created from the dust, just as God created Adam. He believed that we should be creators, like God, and not procreators as God designed us. | ||
The strange thing is, if this was the case, why did God create men and women with sexual organs that were '''designed''' to produce children? | |||
==Message churches addition to this doctrine== | |||
Message ministers attempt to use Psalms 51:5 to prove that God never did intend children to be born by sex: | |||
:''Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.''<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ps 51:5.</ref> | |||
This does not prove William Branham's doctrine at all. It merely states that after the fall, all men have a congenital tendency toward evil. This doctrine finds expression in the following Bible passages: | |||
:''And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Ge 8:21.</ref> | |||
:''If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near...''<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), 1 Ki 8:46.</ref> | |||
:''Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?<ref>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Pr 20:9.</ref> | |||
When David says, “Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me,” he is not blaming his mother for his sin, of course. The whole tone of the psalm is against any such idea. David is confessing his sin and taking full responsibility for it. He is confessing that there was never a moment in his existence when he was not a sinner. As one of the early commentators says, “He lays on himself the blame of a tainted nature instead of that of a single fault.”<ref>James Montgomery Boice, Psalms 42–106: An Expositional Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), 428.</ref> | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
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And He showed here, in the beginning, that His perfect will was to create man out of the dust of the earth. But, you see, He permitted sex to be brought in. He never did intend children to be born by sex, but it was permitted, which soon will fade away.<ref>DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND LA.CA 65-0427</ref> | And He showed here, in the beginning, that His perfect will was to create man out of the dust of the earth. But, you see, He permitted sex to be brought in. He never did intend children to be born by sex, but it was permitted, which soon will fade away.<ref>DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND LA.CA 65-0427</ref> | ||
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