I was talking to someone today, was talking on the word of “sin.” I said, “Drinking whiskey is not a sin. Smoking cigarettes is not sin. Living in adultery’s not a sin.” A lady raised up and said, “Well, Brother Branham, what is a sin?” I said, “That’s the attributes of sin. Sin produces that. That isn’t sin; that’s what sin produces.” I said, “Because that you live good, that’s not because you’re a Christian. That’s the attributes of Christian life.” See? You are a sinner because you believe not. And Jesus said to the people, after He’d performed His work, He said, “Go ye, and…” What no more? Sin no more. What would sin be then? “Disbelieve no more or worse things than this will come upon you.” So if God in His mercy, will help and will show by the Gospel and by signs and wonders that His Presence is here, and you go and disbelieve it? Well, that’s between you and God. You might even be worse off than the sick people that’s on the platform pretty soon. That has been in thousands of cases.

The Angel of the Lord, 1953-06-04, Connersville, IN, §13