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…
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…
As we go through our day to day in this new world of the jabbed and the unjabbed, do we consider the word of God when coming into contact with others? In this message I want to give you something to think about.
Lev.12-15 tells Israel how to deal with people that are…
Did you know that the Bible shows that even when keeping the law you may still be a transgressor of the law? And did you know that virtually all of the churches have fallen into this transgression of the law by “the deceitfulness of sin”? It’s true.
So the Jews that…
aith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. What does this mean to you? When I hear these words it means that as we hear the message of the gospel and we are made aware of a choice we need to make. And when we make the free will choice to believe the gospel we are…
By Edward O’Hara,
I have heard it taught that the Pharaoh Moses dealt with could not be held accountable by God for the hardness of his heart. Since it was God that did the hardening.
That it was the fact that the hardening that happened to Pharaoh was the consequence of…
By Edward O’Hara,
Many people have difficulty understanding how the law is both spiritual and temporal. In this study we will see why this is true. And how this spiritual law is a ministration of death and condemnation. A “spiritual law” that can never give life.
As in all of Paul’s letters, here too he is emphasizing that salvation is by grace and not by works. Doing so because the flesh naturally gravitates toward works when trying to attain anything.
So the problem with the flesh is that it works to attain what it wants. And not…
When we think of sacrifice we usually think about it in terms of giving ones self in some way for the benefit of another. Or we may think of it in religious service like Israel did in the temple in the Old Covenant. Or maybe we think of Jesus doing the greatest sacrifice of…