<TITLE>04. Par 10-12</TITLE>L-10 I certainly don't want to be wrong, and I'd better be right here, 'cause it's too late when I get there. You see? You want to... As the old colored brother says, "I don't want no trouble at the river." So that's right. I--I want... It's going to be a foggy morning and then a awful time, and I sure want my ticket in my hand, it correctly signed, 'cause I--I don't want... It's too late then. You see?
So, and I... In discussing anything I go at it to learn something. I want to know, and if I'm wrong I certainly want to know that I'm wrong (See?), so I can be right. I wish I could agree upon those things, and make it a universal feeling, but I--I--I'm just... If it's wrong, it's just wrong. You... There's no black white bird nor drunk sober man. See? It's either right, or it's wrong. It--it--it... You can't have error and truth together. It's either truth or it's error. See? You believe that, don't you, brethren? And certainly, if--if--if the Scripture is right, then let's stay with the Scripture. And if the church is right, then... That's what I said to them priests. I said, "If the church is right, stay with the church."
He said, "Well, the church is right."
I said, "Then, you said that the church... that the--that the Bible here is the history of the first church. Well, if it is then it's the infallible church, why have you changed so much. You see...?..."

L-11 Then that throwed his argument out there. You see? I said, "You said Christ organized the Catholic church." See? "If He organized the Catholic church, and if apostle Peter and all of them was the first Catholics, well, then I'm Catholic too then. I say exactly what they said. Well, you're so far off out here, see?" I said, "you don't have anything they said." See? "Why, Peter said, the first pope, said there's no mediator between God and man but Christ Jesus, the only Mediator, and now you've got tens of thousands of them." I said, "Now, which... Is the first pope right, or this pope? Which one's right?" See?
He said, "Well, you see, the Catholic church has power."
I said, "Then when did the first Catholic say, in--in writing it, said if an Angel from heaven come preaches any other Gospel, let him be accursed, whether he be a pope, or a priest, or whatever he may be, and whosoever taketh away or adds to this book, the same will be taken..." I said, "You're all mixed up somewhere, sir. Either your first church is right, or this one's right. And if your first one was right, this one's wrong." See? And I said, "I'll stay with the first Catholics. See? That way they were Catholics." So you see, you got to be right.

L-12 We only... To hold a--a--a discussion you have to come back to something basically you can lay your hands on, because you have just as much right to your beliefs, as you believe, and everybody else. But we got to come back. There's got to be somewhere to start from, somewhere to say, "This is it," 'cause you can't debate, other words. See? If we both... I said, "Well, the Branham Tabernacle is right." And you say... he says the--the--the--the... You say, "The Anglican Church is right in England and--and..."
What say? [Brother in audience speaks to Brother Branham --Ed.] Yeah, let him be Arminian, so forth, you know, and you take the Dutch Reform. Well now, where we going to? Now, there's got to be some place. Well, you can go back and quote your catechisms and all others and so forth. We only go back to the church, to our--our found--founders, where we're founded at, but where we basing this at. See, there's got to be somewhere that's right?
Just like a principle that you're speaking on in--in Parliament. You've got to have something that's right. You got--you got to lay it out there and show the people. You got to have some place to start from. Well, that's the way we have to do the Bible.


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