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Please explain the difference between the spirit and the soul.

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Well now, that’s a hard one. But the first thing you are, a triune being, just like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is three titles going to one Person, which is Jesus Christ. And you’re soul, body, and spirit. But it takes those three to make you. With just one of them, you...
Questions and Answers, 1961-10-15, Jeffersonville, IN, §156 Read more →

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What did God give man the five senses for?

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Now, God put man first in His Own image, which was in the image of God. And God is a Supernatural Being; he was a supernatural man. And then He put him in five senses, and none of those five senses declare his Heavenly home. Those five senses declare his earthly home. And God give him five senses to...
God's Provided Way, 1953-12-01, West Palm Beach, FL, §28 Read more →

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If God is a Spirit, what kind of man did He make in His own image?

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Man before he was this man, he was a spirit man. God made the first man in His Own image. How many says that’s right? Well, what kind of a image has God got? He’s a Spirit, is that right? So He made a Spirit man ’fore He made a flesh man. Then He put man in five senses to contact his earthly home. H...
The Resurrection of Lazarus, 1953-11-22, Evansville, IN, §13 Read more →

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Why can a person still remember a dream from years ago?

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Now, the person who…Listen closely. The person who dreams a dream is not sleeping sound. A dream is your subconscious. Let’s see the normal man; here is his first conscious, and here is his subconscious. Now, when this one becomes inactive, this one is active. Now, you people that’s dreamed dream, y...
Deep Calleth Unto the Deep, 1953-11-04, Owensboro, KY, §21 Read more →

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Why does Brother Branham call faith a sixth sense?

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Now, look. What is faith? Faith is a sixth sense. Five senses control this man. God put man in five senses to contact his earthly home. You don’t contact God with your five senses. You know God by faith which is the sixth sense, which is the…There’s two senses of the soul: faith and unbelief. And if...
The Beginning of Jesus' Fame, 1953-06-05, Connersville, IN, §29 Read more →

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What were man's five senses given to him for?

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Now, I believe that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And I believe that in the beginning God made man in His own image, and God is a Spirit. And God made man spirit-man. Then He made him in the dust of the earth. Now, I believe that man in the beginning, well, led the animals...
The Pillar of Fire, 1953-05-09, Jonesboro, AR, §11 Read more →

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Does a person get a new spirit when he is born again?

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Now, when you are re-born, you don’t get a new spirit. You get a new nature of that spirit. It’s the same spirit, but a new nature of it. You take two man, stand them together, both look alike; and one of them is a sinner, and one of them is a Christian. One man say, “I got a spirit the same as you...
The Cruelty of Sin, and the Penalty That It Cost to Rid Sin from Our Lives, 1953-04-03, Jeffersonville, IN, §56 Read more →

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Is a man limited to his five senses?

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And in time, the old wheels grind slow, but it grinds sure. It’s got to be just the way God said it was going to be. No matter how unreal It seems, but It’s going to be that way, as we talked last night. One time they didn’t have electricity, but some man believed there was such a thing. And he kept...
Only Believe, 1953-02-17, Tallahassee, FL, §10 Read more →

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What senses does the inward man have?

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Faith is an element. It’s a sense. It’s the sixth sense of the human body, or, the…it’s the one sense…the human soul has two senses. Part of a man, that his five senses control the human body: see, taste, feel, smell, hear. And the inward man has two senses: that’s faith, unbelief. One of them gover...
Faith (Africa Trip Report), 1952-07-26, Zion, IL, §4 Read more →

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Can a person contact God through the physical senses?

Answer

Now, the senses are worldly instruments. Do you believe it? Now, God can control them, I’ll admit that. But they are not given to us to contact our Heavenly Father, because He is not in human flesh. God is a Spirit. And we contact Him by spirit, through faith, believing. Now if we say I—I have a…
Believing God, 1952-02-24, Jeffersonville, IN, §128 Read more →

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What are the senses of the spirit, compared with the five senses of the body?

Answer

Your faith is the only thing that can do you any good, your belief, your faith in God. See what I mean? Without faith, it’s impossible. Is that true? Now, you believe it with all your heart when you come through, that you’re going be well, and you’ll get well. If you don’t believe it, it won’t get w...
Experiences, 1948-03-02, Phoenix, AZ, §69 Read more →

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