by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 5, 2021 | Jehovah's Witnesses, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
Does salvation come by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone or is it dispensed by a particular God-appointed organization? Shortly after I came to the faith, Joy, who had been a believer from childhood, and I along with several of our newly born-again...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 15, 2021 | False Prophet, False Teacher, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jewish, Joel's Army, Latter-Rain Movement, Nation of Israel
This article was originally posted in 2020. In it we were addressing two ways in which false teachers interpret and twist scripture in order to deceive the unwary. Sadly, these two tricks seem to be remarkably effective. The first involves ignoring context when...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 3, 2021 | Deity of Christ, Divided Families, False Prophecy, False Prophet, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
All of us make choices every day. Most of our choices are mundane. “What shall I have for breakfast?” “What outfit will I wear to work/church/boating?” Other choices, though, have longer term and more far-reaching impact. Should I marry him/her? If I do, where will we...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 29, 2020 | Christ, Deity of Christ, Eschatology, Incarnation, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus - Michael the Archangel
If the Gospel of John in the Jehovah’s Witnesses New World Translation (hereafter NWT) opened with the first verse reading, “In the Beginning was Michael,” almost everyone, including most Jehovah’s Witnesses, would know there was something seriously wrong there. But...
by Guest Writer | Aug 19, 2020 | False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
(Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2016 Issue of the MCOI Journal, Page 14) I often find myself reflecting on how it was that I went from being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs)1Jehovah’s Witnesses, aka JWs, are followers of the teachings of the Watchtower Bible...
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...
