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:''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> | :''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> | ||
William Branham appears to be misquoting the 1890 Darby translation (although William Branham never mentions Darby... ever) of 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (and not Proverbs) 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> | ||