<TITLE>17. Par -</TITLE>L-26-8 Now, you say, "Oh, Brother Branham, now, you're..." Wait just a moment! We'll go back to the seed again. What was it the devil tried to do with wisdom? Make God's Word say something that It didn't say. That's right. He tried to make God's Word say something that It didn't say. So that's the way it comes today.
When they try to make God's Word say something that It doesn't say, well, they say, "Well, I tell you, Brother Branham, you ain't got the right interpretation." The Bible said that--that prophecy is of no private interpretation. Why? Why ain't it of private interpretation? WHY? The Word of the Lord came to the prophets; It is interpretated by the prophet. It can't be of an interpretation private. The prophets already interpret It to you. There it is, written right there. That's the way it's supposed to be.

L-27-2 God's got to have some fundamental something that all people's got to be judged by. If it's by a church, which one's right (about nine hundred of them, nine hundred different organizations)? [Brother Branham coughs--Ed.] (Pardon me). Which one of them is right? How do you know you're going in? What if you're a Methodist, and the Baptists is right? What if you're a Pentecostal, the Presbyterians are right? What if you're a Catholic, and the Lutherans are right? What if you're a Lutheran, and the Catholics are right? See? There's got to be some foundation somewhere. So if the Word...

L-27-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. See? The Word was in God; It was God. It was His thoughts that was with Him always. There... God's thoughts is as eternal as God is. Amen! That ain't skim milk, brother. See?
Here it comes! God's thoughts was His Word. In the beginning... (That's in eternity now, when beginning first started, time)... In the beginning was the Word,... (God's thoughts)... and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. See? His thoughts is what He was. That's you too. What's your thoughts are is what you are. No matter what you try to live by something else, your thoughts is what you are. You might go along and act like a nice fellow, but in your heart you're an adulteress, and whatever it is, that's what you are--your thoughts. And God's thoughts was His Word, that was with Him and in Him, and It was God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And that Word was made flesh. God's thoughts was expressed in a human body, made flesh and dwelled among us. There you are.

L-28-2 Now, if you have Eternal Life today, you are in God. By God's being in you, you are God's expressed thought. Whew! Then don't listen to any reasonings, lest your crown be taken and give to another. Don't take any reasonings at all. Just believe what God said is the Truth and stay with It.
Reasonings through wisdom tries to make the Word say something It doesn't say.
Now, you say, "Is that true, Brother Branham?"
Well, let's just go back to Genesis and find out. Let's go to Genesis the 3rd chapter of Genesis, and we're going to read the--the--the 4th verse. See if--if--if wisdom tries to make the Word say something that It isn't. The 3rd chapter of Genesis, the 4th verse:
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
See what it presents? What is it? Trying to make the Word say something that It doesn't say. See? God said, "You shall die!"

L-28-7 Wisdom, as Satan was presenting to her, said, "You shall not surely die!" See? It's trying to make the Word say something that It isn't so. That's what wisdom is today. Oh, brother, how we'd tarry on that. Seminaries, schools of theology, that's their very nest; that's their grass roots, is trying to make God's Word say something that It doesn't say.
I challenge anybody to show me the Apostles' Creed in the Bible. I challenge anybody to show me "communion of saints" in the Bible. Both Protestant and Catholic believe it. I challenge you to show me any of those things in the Bible.


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