by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 10, 2022 | False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Word Faith
Nearly everyone understands the concept of missionaries to and in other countries. Reconciliation Ministries Network gives the origins of the term: The word missionary comes from the Latin word mitto, which means “to send.” It is the equivalent of the Greek word...
by Joy A Veinot | Feb 17, 2022 | Fall 1999, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Pagan Celebrations, Paganism
(This originally appeared in the Fall 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal) We are heading into the Christmas season again, and you know what that means, some Jehovah’s Witness (JW) is certain to show up on your doorstep and hand you a Watchtower or Awake!...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 10, 2022 | Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Teacher, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Trinity, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
The Watchtower Society claims that they and they alone are God’s chosen organization and THE “faithful and discreet slave” acknowledged and offered rulership by Jesus in Matthew 25:21. One of the pieces of evidence that JWs point to is that they, the Jehovah’s...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 13, 2022 | Apologetics, Cults and Religions, Evangelism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
We have sometimes been told that witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and others in cult groups is “just a waste of time.” “They don’t listen.” To be sure, witnessing to people in cults can be quite frustrating. It can be draining. So why do we do it? That is...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 11, 2021 | Brian McLaren, Hell, Jehovah's Witnesses, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Rob Bell, Salvation, Scripture, Seventh-Day Adventist, Suffering
Before the first seven notes of the song are finished, nearly everyone knows it is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. He first wrote the song in 1955, recorded it in 1957, and included it on a compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train in 1962. The song skyrocketed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 23, 2021 | Bible, Christ, Claudio Naranjo, Cosmic Christ, Deity of Christ, Enneagram, Heresy, Incarnation, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus a Buddhist, Mormon, Panentheism, Richard Rohr, Socialism, Yoga
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3) The Apostle John penned the opening lines of his...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…