by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 28, 2018 | Bible, Bible study, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, NAR, New Apostles and Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation, Resurrection, The Mirror BIble, The Passion Bible
Some years ago, Bob Anderson of Watchman Fellowship and Erich Grieshaber -former JW and now evangelist – did a short skit called “The Custom Bible Company” at one of the annual Witnesses Now for Jesus Conventions. Although it was a spur of the moment skit that...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 10, 2018 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Definitions, Gospel, Grace, Heresy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Legalism, Mormonism, Roman Catholicism, Sacrifice, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
I am constantly amazed at the large number of people who do not truly understand the biblical concept of grace. Since grace is, of course, spoken of in Scripture, it is part of the vocabulary of most churches and even cults. The shorthand definition we most often use...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 25, 2018 | Deity of Christ, Early Church Fathers, Herbert W. Armstrong, Heresy, Moody Bible Institute, Trinity
Few realize how subtly doctrinal drift occurs. It often isn’t a jump from sound teaching and belief in the essentials of the faith to all out denial but is a slight lean from one to the other. It comes with a slight change in wording or application of a new definition...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 12, 2018 | Adoptionism, Christ in Me International a Cult, Cults and Religions, Definitions, Deity of Christ, False Teacher, Heresy, Hermeneutics, Jesus Resurrection, Resurrection
Christ in Me International (CiMI) is a New Religious Movement developing in South Africa. We were alerted to its existence when we began receiving emails and requests for information: Is this a group that falls within the historic Christian faith but engages in some...
by Guest Writer | Feb 11, 2018 | Apologetics, context, Discernment, Discipleship, Education, Heresy, MCOI Journal, Summer 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 10) Half way through college, during the Christmas season of 1974, I first tasted the adventure of life in Jesus. It soon seemed to me that the most difficult resources to find were the...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 5, 2017 | Bible study, context, Evangelical Left, False Teacher, Heresy, Hermeneutics, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Political Correctness, Postmodernism, Theological liberalism
Needless to say, I was away from home on a Sunday. We decided to go to a friend’s church we had attended before. I won’t name the church and details have been altered to stave off embarrassment. But I bet you can guess the denomination. The first thing I...