Subject: Genesis 3:1-7 |
Bible Note: You wrote: "Genesis 4:1 says Eve said that we have a man from the Lord, and is silent regarding Abel." The Bible says: "Now the man had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, 'I have gotten a manchild with the help of the LORD.'" --Genesis 4:1 Let's look again at that first clause: "the man had relations with his wife Eve." Adam had sex with Eve. Then what? "and she conceived." I would hate to have to try and draw a diagram on here, but sex with Adam led to the conception of a child in verse 1. Who was that child? "and gave birth to Cain..." Easy as 1-2-3. You would have to be pretty ignorant of reproductive anatomy to miss the domino effect here. We already discussed 1 John 3:12. We were ALL of the wicked one until God called those whom he elected to justification and adoption. Cain's and Abel's spiritual differences cannot be attributed to genetics. It is nonsense, completely unsupported by Scripture. How does Branhamism account for two brothers of the same parents in today's world, one a Christian and one not? Or a Christian child of two parents who are not? It is failure to take responsibility for our own personaly depravity, our own treasonous rebellion against a holy God. God does not save us based on our own physical relationship to Satan: "He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will" --Ephesians 1:5 Those of us who are God's children are ADOPTED, not natural children of Him. This is a spiritual relationship of Fatherhood and sonship, for we were all "children of wrath" before conversion (Ephesians 2:3). And why did God adopt us from Satan's "family" into ours? It was "according to the kind intention of His will," not because of our genetic link to him in some crazy way. You quoted me and added: Joe:---So we return to the age-old deception of believing that the Bible needs a human interpreter to tell us what the "hidden meaning" behind the text is. Amo 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets." Let's look at that verse in context: "Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy? Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod and on the citadels in the land of Egypt and say, "Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great tumults within her and the oppressions in her midst." --Amos 3:7-9 1. Amos was God's tool for revelation in an era prior to the completion of Scripture. Hence his revelation being INCLUDED in Scripture. Branham was a so-called "prophet" after the Bible had been completed, which would imply that God's revelation in the Bible was somehow incomplete. This is not so: "But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work." --2 Timothy 3:13-17 Where is truth to be found? How can we avoid spiritual deception? By listening to Branham twist the Scriptures and deny plain truths? No, but by knowing "the sacred writings." Therefore, Amos was an Old Testament prophet used by God to reveal his truth in a time before the fulness of His truth would be revealed in one individual: "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world." After the prophets, there was the culmination: Christ. 2. The revelation that God gave Amos was not contradictory of the revelation that had preceded it. Branham's "revelation" starts with Chapter 2 of the entire Bible and starts messing up there. Branham is a false prophet because he denies the very words that God has already plainly revealed to us through his REAL prophets in the Old Testament, and twists the truths revealed by the inspired writers of the New Testament. --Joe! |