by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 23, 2025 | context, False Prophet, False Teacher, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, NAR, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Word Faith
As we help those who are former cult members, it is nearly always necessary to show them how to read the Bible in its historical and grammatical context. Bringing new clarity to a person’s understanding of Scripture is a process we refer to as “unwinding.” Plenty of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 16, 2025 | Biblical Ethics, Cancel Culture, Child Sacrifice, context, Human Rights Violations, Infanticide, Liberal Left, Life Begins at Conception, Morality, Progressives
As students of history, we enjoy reading books, articles, poems, speeches, and at times technical works, in their historical/grammatical context. This is true of the Bible as well as other historical works. Doing so gives us a genuine insight into the lives and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 28, 2025 | Angels, context, Elohim, Idolatry, Idols, Jesus, Jewish, Michael Heiser, Paganism
In the book, Practically Radical, American writer, speaker, and entrepreneur William C. Taylor seems to have coined the phrase, “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” This has applications in several areas, even including biblical translation and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 21, 2025 | Angels, context, Elohim, False gods, Hinduism, Idols, Israel, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jewish, Michael Heiser, Mormon, Mormonism
Early on in talking with Jehovah’s Witnesses, we noticed something interesting about their view of God in their New World Translation of the Bible. While they SAY there is only one God, they have at least two separate gods in their teaching. One is Jehovah, and the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 7, 2025 | context, Deception, Discernment, Guarding the flock, Immorality, Progressives, Racism, SBC, Self deceived, Southern Baptist Convention, White Fragility, Woke
If the Apostle John were to write his epistles today, perhaps 1 John 2:19 might read more like this: They progressed from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. Seems like a lot of people are progressing away from...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 3, 2025 | Angels, context, Elohim, False gods, Hermeneutics, Idols, Jewish, Michael Heiser
At times, the Bible offers us glimpses of what lies beyond the veil of our physical plane of earthly existence, where angels, demons, the souls of the saved who have passed into His presence, and God Himself dwell. In Isaiah 6, the prophet records a vision where he...
