Subject: Genesis 3:1-7 |
Bible Note: Paul: You also wrote, regarding Cain's sin: "It's interesting to consider how such a life could be manifested immediately after the fall." It is tragic, but that is who were became after the fall of Adam (note that Romans 5 says that death came through Adam, not Eve). Murder was the way that our total depravity demonstrated itself in the second generation of humanity. That is the kind of person we all once were (Ephesians 2:3). Romans 3:10-18 paints a very bleak picture of humanity, and all human beings are shut up under that judgment. We are no better off than Cain, unaided by God's regenaration in the Holy Spirit. You write: "You've picked a point unacceptable to your thinking, and disqualified a powerful ministry based on this." I think that you and I will both agree that there are very "powerful," successful ministries in this world which have nothing at all to do with the true God. If outwardly transformed lives are the sole mark of a true ministry, then Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism, The Jehovah's Witness, and Branhamism all qould qualify. However, they are all based on a rejection or twisting of clearly set-forth biblical doctrine. It is heresy to state that we need something more than the Bible to understand God. God has provided the complete written revelation of His working throughout history in the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, and no "prophet" is needed these days to explain the "hidden things of God" since all that humanity needs to know has been recorded in Scripture. Lastly, you write: "I'm very serious about these things, and I do leave them with GOD for final clarity. I'm also very serious when I exort you to do the same." I have no doubt about your seriousness. People are seriously wrong all the time. I do not need to pray to God whether Branham is right, because he has already shown me that he is not. I do not need to ask if Jesus is God's only-begotten Son, because God has shown me. I do not need to ask if David was a songwriter, because the Bible tells me that he is. And I certainly do not need to ask if the serpent is the father of a race of human beings, since Genesis 4 and Romans 5 clearly point out that that is Satanic nonsense. --Joe! |