<TITLE>03. Par -</TITLE>L-696-22 Now, I thought, in asking these questions, that it might give me a little approach to your--your thoughts. I got two. As I come in the door Billy said there was more, but 'course, I didn't get a chance to look them over. And I want to be sure that I'm Scripturally right before I answer it, because you was want it to be that way, or before I answered it. So maybe I can hold those back for some other time. Now, one of the... And in answering these questions, now, remember, I'm just doing the best that I can.
I don't answer questions out in the services. I tried it one time and got in trouble. They misunderstood me. It was about Mr. Allen, or about the evidence of blood and oil and so forth in hands and face, being the evidence of the Holy Ghost. I said, "Well, I don't know about that," I said, "I never seen anything of it in the Scripture." I said, "But I--I believe that I'd--could preach like this, brother, I wouldn't lay upon sensations, I'd just preach the Gospel," and went on.

L-697-24 And so they got a letter, internationally, "Dear Brother Branham..." so it went everywhere. And they just misunderstood it. And we sent them the tapes and let them play it over and see I... Said that I condemned the man. I--I did not. I never condemned any brother. Sometimes I can disagree with them, but that's on friendly basis.
And then here not long ago a man wrote a book about this man, about, "Biting of Devils." Then I thought it'd be a time maybe to pay up or to let him know. And the man that wrote the book had criticized every evangelist on the field but me, and he was setting right in my meeting, so I said, "I appreciate not the criticism," but I said, "The brother, frankly, he complimented it on "Christian Digest"; he said that I was one who never taken up offerings and begged people for moneys, and so forth like that, and he appreciated it. And the man setting there, but a chance that I knowed that the man had said something about Brother Allen that wasn't right.
He said, "A. A. Allen wrote this book of 'Biting of Devils.'"
Now, A. A. Allen never wrote that book. I knowed the writer of that book. And I said, "Now, if the man who wrote it, wasn't sincere enough to go out and check up to see who wrote it before he criticized Brother Allen, I kinda believe some of his other criticism is not due these brethren." See? And the man setting right there taking up for me. But it was just let him know that his statement was wrong (You see?), that Brother Allen never wrote that book, the writing of--'Biting of Devils.'

L-697-27 Now, in answering these questions, they are the best of my knowledge. And if... I'll try to answer them by the Scriptures.
Now, the first one is found, I believe, in I Corinthians the 7th chapter and the 15th verse. So now, we will try to go over to that Scripture and see what it looks like, and see if we can help this precious person who's asking the question. Now, I Corinthians, 7th chapter, 15th verse. And I suppose the person's present now. Now, here's the way it reads:
But if the unmarried depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such a case: but God has called us unto peace.


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