<TITLE>08. Par -</TITLE>L-21-65 And then He put man in the dust of the earth, which was the first man Adam. And that man was made after the image, this human man here, is made after the image of an animal. These human bodies are made in the image of animal.
We got a hand just like a monkey, and--and got a foot like a bear. Take a little cub bear, strip him down, pull the skin off of him and put up the side of a little baby girl and look at the difference. Huh. Brother, you sure have to look close. The whole diaphragm, the make-up, is almost the same, the way it's made and the form of it, and everything just exactly. It's in the image of animal life, because he was made something on the order of the animal, because that was his duty to lead the animal.

L-22-67 And you take the Holy Spirit off of a man, he's lower than the animal; he's worse than the animal. That's a hard thing to say. But you take a man that's unregenerated in his mind, without the Holy Spirit to direct his thoughts, and--and things like that, he would throw a baby out of a mother's arms and ravish her for beastly lust. That's exactly.
And a woman that's no good... You take an old mother hog or an old dog; we've give it all kinds of names for... But her morals are just her puppies, and the hog for her piggies; but an ornery no-good account woman is just as--just filth all the time. That's right. So remember, that you're... Without Christ, your morals are--can drop down to below a dog. That's right.
The dog don't have to wear clothes to cover hisself, no other animal. It was man that fell, not the animal life. But the animal life being under the man (the human life), was subject to it, because man was his guide and his supreme leader. And every beast of the field fears a man.
Somebody was asking me, sometime, about hunting, "Are you afraid of it?" Why, every animal was ever created fears a man, because that's got to be from the beginning back yonder. See? Sure is. You run and he'll run after you (that's right), but, a dog or anything you want to. All right.

L-22-71 But now notice, now that man when he come down here... Now, look, here... You say, "Now, what about it now, Brother Branham?"
Now, here you get God in just exactly, and between the oneness and trinity you'll get the thing just exactly right now. Now, look. When God dropped, unfolded Hisself, unfolded Hisself down till He come down to this man... Now, man sinned not in his spirit, but in his body: lust, passion. Then when he sinned, he separated hisself from his Maker. And then God, the Logos, the very Creator of him, came down and was made in the image of man. Man was made in the image of God, and then he was made in the image of beast, and he fell. And God came down in the image of man, in the Man Christ Jesus, to suffer pain. God could not suffer pain in the Spirit. How could He suffer physical pain in the Spirit? He couldn't do it. So God unfolded Himself and was made in the image of man, to redeem the man that was lost. See?
And then God suffered in the flesh. I Timothy 3:16, "Without controversy (that's argument), great is the mystery of godliness; for God was manifested in the flesh, seen of angels, preached on...?... and believed, and received up to the right hand of the Father." Is that right? God Himself came down and lived in a human body and suffered temptation. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself." See what love is, the love of God?


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