2 Corinthians 11:4

“For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough”.

The current world crisis is over moral values as much as anything else.

East versus West Spiritual War

“American Orthodox ‘Archbishop (OCA) says Morality is an Evolutionary Construct”

Deposed Deacon Puhalo, who masquerades as an “archbishop” with the blessing and implicit consent of the OCA Synod, continues to spread heretical and false teaching, using the authority granted to him by the same Synod, to directly contradict the truth, the Scriptures, and the teaching of the Orthodox Church.

On October 26 on his Facebook page, Lazar Puhalo made several outrageous and categorically false statements about morality and virtue. These are a sampling of his latest non-Orthodox and non-Christian declarations:
“Morality is an evolutionary construct, it is not a product of religion.”

“Basic moral concepts are practiced to one degree or another throughout the animal kingdom and not just among primates.”

“Moral concepts evolve the same as the organism that has and develops those concepts. The argument that we would not have morality without religion is simply fraudulent and completely untrue.”

“Both morality and concepts of virtue are evolutionary constructs”

Here are some excerpts from Puhalo’s entire Facebook post from October 23, 2023:

“We do not need to tell lies and use misinformation to defend our Faith(sic)”.

“Morality is an evolutionary construct, it is not a product of religion. Basic moral concepts are practised to one degree or another throughout the animal kingdom and not just among primates”.

“Generally, actions that unify and enhance any social organism’s survival and prosperity will be labelled as “moral.”

“The radical juridicalism of Western theology results from it being tied to Roman civil law and the literal understanding of the Old Testament. This resulted in the idea that God required a human sacrifice to cover the sins of human beings”.

“The notion that Jesus Christ was punished on our behalf for our sins is grossly immoral and has no connection with the concept of love. In fact, it negates any concept of forgiveness because punishment and forgiveness are mutually exclusive”.

“If Jesus Christ was punished on behalf of mankind, then mankind is never forgiven; rather, punishment has been had, which means that the idea of forgiveness is a mere legal fiction, defining most Western theology”.

Puhalo brazenly teaches falsehoods that undermine the truth and directly contradict the right theology and teaching of the Holy Orthodox Church. He has done so repeatedly in the past without any consequence from the OCA Synod. Many of his teachings are not only not Orthodox, they’re not even Christian!
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Puhalo uses no passages from the Holy Scriptures to support his assertions. He seems more knowledgeable about anthropology and evolution theories.

Puhalo denies almost all of the teachings in the gospel of the New Testament. Yet, he postures himself as a “Christian Orthodox” priest. There’s not one orthodox thing related to his teachings.

This man denies the ransom sacrifice of Christ! Christ’ sacrifice is the very basis for Christian faith.

We must never forget the counsel we have been given:

Galatians 1:6-9

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

7 and there is not another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

8 But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should proclaim to you a “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

9 As we have said before, so I now say again: if anyone preaches to you a “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.

The so-called Christian church in the West has embraced a “new gospel” and is at war morally with all other nations that wisely reject it.

The Roman Catholic pope is no better than this perverter of the faith.

There is a spiritual war being waged globally.