In John3 when Jesus tells Nicodemus he must be born again because what is born of the flesh is flesh. And what is born of the Spirit is spirit. He is not saying he must be born of the Spirit because being only flesh he is evil, or sinful by nature. As so many falsely teach.
By Edward O’Hara
In conversations I have had with people that believe in original sin and sin nature, there seems to be a big question about this. From seminarians to pastors to lay people, a strange doctrine emerges.
I say strange because it does not come from…
Edward O’Hara
Did you know that Paul’s teaching that he calls “the mystery that was hidden from ages past” in Col.1 speaks of the church leaving this place for heaven? We can only see this whenwe understand correctly who the “he…
By Edward O’Hara
In our last message in pt.2 of this series I talked about how and why free will terrified Augustine then, and terrifies his followers now. And how that fear caused Augustine, Luther, and Calvin to forsake free will.
And in pt.1 how that rather…
Edward O’Hara
Why did God make Adam a natural man? Why didn’t God make him spiritual from the beginning?Oh,” you say, “but God did make him spiritual from the beginning. He made him in His image and likeness so that means he was made…
Edward O’Hara
In Mat.18 Jesus says“Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”When taken out of context, as from what I have heard…
By Edward O’Hara,
I’ve been accused of this almost more times than I can count. By people that believe themselves to be competent in their knowledge of what Pelagius believed, so they should know better. Just because I believe that men have a free will that is…
By Edward O’Hara,
There’s lots of talk today about how God is finished dealing with Israel. And has cast her off from Him because of her continual idolatries. How that her Star of David is really an emblem of the false god she committed whoredoms with in the Old…