by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 6, 2026 | Agnostic, Atheism, Bible, Bible reliable, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Contradictions, deconstruction, Divided Families, Liberal Left, Progressives
In the late 1990s, I (Don) was asked by a professor at a local community college to teach a class on Christianity in their Religion 101 course. I agreed and spent nearly an hour explaining the Bible’s reliability and describing evidence for the existence of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 23, 2026 | Authoritarian, Bible, Brian McLaren, Christ, Contradictions, deconstruction, Discernment, False Prophet, False Teacher, Holiness, Idolatry, Jesus Resurrection, Richard Rohr, Rob Bell
The phrase, “In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity,” has been attributed to Augustine, Philipp Melanchthon, German Lutheran theologian Rupertus Meldenius (1627), and Marco Antonio De Dominis. So, although there doesn’t seem to be unity...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 17, 2025 | Adultery, Bart Ehrman, Bible, Capital Punishment, Contradictions, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Hermeneutics, Immorality
We regularly receive phone calls, emails, or questions in person from folks seeking answers to apparent biblical contradictions. Sometimes the questioner needs to be able to respond to a skeptic. This issue of seeming Bible contradictions is a favorite of skeptics...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 28, 2020 | Bible, Bible Prophecy, Bible reliable, context, Contradictions, Cross, Definitions, Hermeneutics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scripture
Sometimes errors in understanding biblical texts stem from not paying close enough attention to the language. They can occur if we do not have a good working knowledge of the time period wherein the text was written and/or the cultural background. Other times errors...
by Guest Writer | Apr 18, 2020 | Atheism, Bart Ehrman, Bible, Bible reliable, Contradictions, Fall 2006, Inerrancy, Liberalism, MCOI Journal, No. 3, Volume 12
Truth and Meaning As It Relates To History Bart Ehrman, in Misquoting Jesus,1 Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus; San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2005 intends to explain New Testament textual criticism. One theme Ehrman uses to explain textual criticism is that the scribes,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 6, 2018 | Atheist, Bible, Bible reliable, context, Contradictions, Mosaic Law, Sacrifice
It’s truly amazing how often the Bible is challenged by the biblically challenged. I was asked to speak in a Religion 101 class at an area junior college years ago. I thought it would be fun, and after outlining the essential doctrines of Christianity and giving...
