No, we were not even nothing then, but in God’s mind we were. And He spoke it and it materialized. Jesus was slain before…How many knows that the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Why? God spoke it, and when He spoke it, it was as good as finished. And when He saw me, He saw you before the foundation of the world, we were only figurative in His mind. Then when we come to the world, we were both man and woman, male and female. He separated the feminish spirit from the man and made a woman out of it and left the masculine spirit in a man.

When you see a woman acting like a man, there’s something wrong. You see a man acting sissy like a woman, there’s something wrong.

And then He took from the man’s side a rib and made a helpmate out of him, and they two are one.

But before the foundation of the world our names…When the Lamb was slain, our names were put on the Book, when in God’s own mind He foresaw us and predestinated us by His foreknowledge before the foundation of the world. Oh, brother, if that wouldn’t make the church get up and run through the aisles? Think of it. You who are born again, before the foundation of the world, God put your name on the Lamb’s Book of Life. Christ died and sent the Holy Ghost here to call you to Eternal Life. You have received It; He sealed you. You’re there till the day of your redemption. Hallelujah!

Talk about holding on. It isn’t, do I hold on; it’s, did He hold on. It isn’t what I done; it’s what He done. It isn’t, “I quit smoking; I quit lying; I quit stealing;” it’s He died for me. And He took my spirit out of me and converted me into a new creature. Now the next question right below that is…Quickly now so we get it.

Questions and Answers, 1959-06-28, Jeffersonville, IN, §166