by Don Veinot | Mar 12, 2020 | Bart Ehrman, Church History, Deity of Christ, Fall 2010, Jesus Resurrection, Jesus Seminar, MCOI Journal, Reliability of the Bible, Resurrection
(Originally printed in the Fall 2010 Issue of the MCOI Journal) Watching a court jury trial and watching a debate have a number of similarities. In both cases, you have one set of evidence, but you have two opposing sides that attempt to explain the evidence in such a...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 12, 2019 | Bible reliable, Church Councils, Church History, Conspiracy Theories, Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms, Deception, Discernment, Reincarnation
Several of us recently spent a day at a New Age Fair in Ohio talking with various exhibitors. Again, as was true at the last New Age fair we recently attended, in nearly every conversation the claim was made that reincarnation was in the Bible but was taken out by...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 22, 2019 | Bible, Bible reliable, Christian Science, Church History, Definitions, Deity of Christ, Gospel, Idols, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Reincarnation
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Mormons, some New Agers and other non-Christian groups would cheerfully say, “Jesus is Lord” if they are put on the spot to do so. This becomes puzzling to some in light of Paul’s words to the church in Corinth. He wrote:...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 16, 2018 | Atheism, Bible reliable, Church History, Church Invasion, Deity of Christ, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Satan, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Weigh Down Workshop
Out of concern that the First Century believers were susceptible to deception, the Apostle Peter warned in chapter 3 of his second epistle to be careful of those who distort Scripture “…to their own destruction.” The ones Peter warns about here seem to be a different...
by Guest Writer | Nov 30, 2017 | Abortion, Adultery, Church History, Fall 2004, Homosexuality, MCOI Journal, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Volume 10
(Originally printed in the Fall 2004 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 10) By Frank York Retired (1999) Illinois College Professor of Sociology Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt, who holds an M. Div. from Concordia Seminary and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska,...
by Jonathan Miles | Jul 19, 2017 | Bible study, Christian Life, Christianity Today, Church History, Church leadership, Evangelism, Pornography, Salvation, Scripture
Sometimes when someone makes such an outlandish, obviously inflammatory statement you have to step back and look at what’s really going on. Take this headline from Churchleaders: “The Ridiculous Emphasis Christians Place on the Bible” I’m mean...
