<TITLE>51. Par -</TITLE>L-590-495 And he said, "Why, certainly." He said, "If... I can answer that." He said, "You see, what it was," said, "Paul said... All--all the women was setting back in the corners, popping off like they do a lot of the other time. He said, 'Don't let them do that.' See?"
I said, "Then explain II Timothy to me, where Paul said also, the same scribe, the same apostle, said, 'I suffer not a woman to teach or to usurp any authority (See?), but to--to be in obedience. For Adam was first formed and then Eve, and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived... She's deceived. Now, I don't say she wants to do anything wrong, but she's actually deceived in it. She shouldn't be a teacher.'"
He said, "Is that your personal opinion?"
I said, "That's the Scripture's opinion to my way of seeing it. That's what the Bible said."
He said, "Young man, you could have your license taken from you for that."
I said, "I'll just save them the trouble. I'll just give it, Doctor Davis." I said, "Not to any disregard to you..." And he wouldn't do it though. He let it go, let it go by like that.
Then he told me he'd hold an open debate with me with it. And I said, "All right, just any time." But he--he didn't do that.

L-590-501 So then a--a little later on then when the Lord spoke to me, and about the--the Angel of the Lord came, then--then he just made fun of That. You see? And then I--I just told him; I said, "Well, Doctor Davis, it's best that I get rid of this right now (See?)," I said, "'cause it's going to be a burden. I'm just been ordained a little bit, anyhow, so it's going to be a burden to me, so I just might as well get rid of it right now."
So therefore, if I could not stay in the Baptist church and teach Baptist doctrine and take up for Baptist belief... If I did it--if I did it just because it was a church, then I'm wrong (See?); I'm hiding something back. And if I--if I--if I'm honest with myself, I'll go to the Baptist people (my pastor or whoever can explain it to me) and ask them for a--a word of Life; if he can correctly show me where it's right in the Scripture, and satisfies my feeling, then I'll speak it just the way they speak it (See?), and I'll be a Baptist.

L-591-503 That's the reason I am an independent. That's the reason that I do not belong to the organizations, because I do not believe in organizations. And I believe it's unscriptural for an organization. Therefore, I could not belong to any organization and feel justified by doing it. See? Therefore, I do not take people in and make them members and so forth like that, because I believe we're born to be members; we are borned into the Church of the living God. See?
We don't take people's names off the book, and excommunicate them, and everything like that, because I believe that's not in our--our duties to do that. I believe it's God does the excommunicating. See? But I believe that the church, if there would be a brother that was doing something wrong...


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