<TITLE>02. Par 10-24</TITLE>L-10 And I said, "Yes, sir. I was ordained, a Missionary Baptist Church."
He said, "I hear you're associating with the Pentecostals."
I said, "Yes, sir. I'm one of them."

L-11 And he said, "Well, I want to ask something." Said, "They claim to have the Holy Spirit." Said, "Do you think that's the Holy Spirit?"
I said, "Yes, sir."

L-12 He said, "Well, the only thing I can't understand, what all that screaming and shouting and carrying on like that."

L-13 I said, "Well, if you--if you can't put the steam to rolling a wheel, they blow it out the whistle. That's all." I said, "If--if they could... That's why I'm with them." I said, "If you could only get that thing in operation, and that, the enthusiasm, moving out yonder to winning souls, it'd conquer the world." But I said, "That's why I'm there."

L-14   He said, "Well, when I was little boy," he said, "I had a call from God. And mother washed over a washboard, to send me to school." And said, "I, when, I thought, when I got my B.A.," said, "there I'd find Christ, but," said, "I--I didn't." And said, "Now, Brother Branham, I've got enough degrees and honorary degrees to plaster your wall." And said, "Where is Christ in all of it?"

L-15 I said, "I'm not the one, brother, with the grammar school education, to say the--the teachers was wrong. But," I said, "they were right in what they said, but they wasn't... There is some more of It."

L-16 And he said, "Here is why I'm here." He said, "In the school, we educated a fine Indian boy from India. I think he learned to be a... I think it was, maybe, was civil engineering or--or something, he had--he had mastered in. He was going back to help his people." He said, "I took him to the--to the boat, or the train, where he was to go catch the boat, and he to go back to India. I said, 'Son, while you're--while you're going back... ' Said, 'Now you're all fit, and got your education, go back to your people.' Said, 'Why don't you take a real living God back, and forget that dead prophet, Mohammed, that you worship?'"

L-17   The boy, being a Mohammedan, "Well," he said, "sir," he said, "what can your Jesus do for me any more than what my prophet can do?"

L-18 "Well," he said, "our--our--our--our Jesus gives you Life. Your prophet can't do it."

L-19 He said, "But he promised to do it." Yeah. He said, "You know, what we Mohammedans are waiting for, is to see you Christians do what your leader said you would do."
He said, "What's that?"

L-20 He said, "Well, your..." Said, "See, Mohammed only promised life after death. But," said, "Jesus promised that the things that He did you would do also."
And he said, "Oh," said, "well," he said, "you see, they did do it."
He said, "They? We're talking about thee, thee now."

L-21 He said, "Well, now, sir," he said, "I tell you." Said, "You've read the New Testament?"
Said, "Oh, many times, through and through."
He said, "For instance, what Scripture are you referring to?"

L-22 "Well," he said, "many places, John 14:12, and so forth," he said, "Mark 16."

L-23 He said, "Well, now," he said, "you see, Mark 16," said, "we learn that, really, some of the Scriptures, that It's not authentic." He said, "Mark 16, from the 9th verse on," he says, "it's not found in the--the oldest of manuscripts." He said, "It's just added."

L-24   Now, really, I wonder where you get that at, if there happens to be a critic near. Why, I've studied twenty years in Bible history. See? Certainly. Irenaeus and Polycarp, and all of them, recognized It. See? Certainly. It certainly was added. The Vatican didn't edict It. Certainly not. But this, these real writers, said Jesus said This, authentic Writing.
And so he said, "From the 9th verse on, It's not inspired."


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