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'''Charles "Chuck" Missler''' is an author, conservative [[Bible]] teacher, and founder of the Koinonia House ministry based out of [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho|Coeur d'Alene]], [[Idaho]]. Missler is a former businessman who is now a minister and [[Fundamentalist Christianity|biblical fundamentalist]].

== Biography ==

Missler was born and raised in Southern [[California]]. He graduated from the [[United States Naval Academy]] and following graduation spent time in the [[United States Air Force]] completing flight training and becoming Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles.

After his military service, he moved into the private sector of business and technology, holding positions with several large companies including [[TRW]] (a large aerospace firm), [[Ford Motor Company]], and [[Automatic Data Processing]]. He has also served as a senior analyst with a non-profit think tank where he conducted projects for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During this time he completed a Master's degree at the [[University of California Los Angeles]] in [[engineering]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}}

Previously, Missler was successful, but his last [[Secularism|secular]] business venture failed catastrophically. The Missler family lost their home, automobiles and insurance. Missler had grown up with a passion for studying the Bible in his youth. With this most recent personal setback, he turned to the Bible and began pursuing this life interest full time as a speaker and author. Previously, he had led Bible studies at [[Calvary Chapel]] in [[Costa Mesa, California]]. He went on to start the Koinonia House ministry in 1973.

He lectures at various churches and events and has been a keynote speaker at the "Steeling the Mind Bible Conferences"[http://compass.org]. He and his family have since moved to Idaho where Missler serves in his conservative, literal Christian theological ministry.

His books and videos discuss broad subjects such as Bible ministry and prophecy study resources, alien and [[UFO]] conspiracies, the [[apocalypse]], and the return of Christ. Some cite his background in engineering and mathematics as contributing factors to his Bible teachings that describe "cosmic codes within the Scriptures" and view the Bible as an "integrated message system from outside our time ___domain," "telling us history in advance".

In 1999, Chuck Missler received his Ph.D. from the unaccredited [[Louisiana Baptist University]] where he is currently a speaker.

==Koinonia Institute and Louisiana Baptist University==

Koinonia Institute is an [[school accreditation|unaccredited]] school operated by Missler. The unaccredited [[Louisiana Baptist University]] (LBU) will accept transfer credits from Koinonia's courses "for up to half of the credit hour requirements for a graduate degree."[http://www.khouse.org/articles/2005/587/] While Missler lives in [[Idaho]] he serves as a professor at LBU, whose students receive college credit for purchasing and reading [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785264299 one of his books]. According to Missler, LBU "has offered course credits for those that do a 'reflective paper' on what they got out of it"; in addition to three semester hours credit, students also receive a certificate for it. ([http://assistnews.net/strategic/s0104006.htm Assist News 2001]) Chuck Missler's Institute can be credited with getting many more people reading and studying the Bible.

==Controversy and criticism==

According to [[Temple University]] Professor William Alnor, Chuck Missler has admitted plagiarizing a portion of [[Miami University]] Professor [[Edwin Yamauchi]]'s 1982 book ''[[Foes From the Northern Frontier]]'' in his own 1992 book ''The Magog Factor'' (co-written by [[Hal Lindsey]]).[http://cultlink.com/plagiarism/plgchart.htm] This act of plagiarism was caught by the ''[[LA Times]]'' ("Question of Attribution" July 30, 1992, by Roy Rivenburg).[http://www.christianmediaresearch.com/cmc-21.html] Missler was also criticized for his "alarmism" for [[Y2K]].[http://answers.org/issues/y2k.html] [[Sarang Gupta]] has drawn up a "refutation of many of the arguments made by Chuck Missler on the tape ''[[Genesis (Bible)|Genesis]] and the [[Big Bang]]''".[http://www.sarangworld.com/biblefuc.php3]

==Works==

=== Books ===

''Note: Koinonia House is Missler's company; books published by Koinonia House are self-published''

* 1995 ''The Way of Agape: Understanding God's Love'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-880532-56-5

* 1996 ''Be Ye Transformed'' with Nancy Missler Pub:Koinonia House ISBN 1-880532-42-5

* 1997 ''Alien Encounters'' with Mark Eastman Pub:Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-061-5

* 1999 ''Faith in the Night Seasons: Understanding God's Will'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-068-2

* 2000 ''Hidden Treasures in the Biblical Text'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-127-1

* 2000 ''The Five Horseman of the Apocalypse'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-095-X

* 2001 ''Against the Tide'' with Nancy Missler Pub:Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-172-7

* 2001 ''The Choice: Hypocrisy or Real Christianity?'' with Nancy Missler Pub:Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-134-4

* 2002 ''Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai & Malachi'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-188-3

* 2002 ''Learn the Bible in 24 Hours'' Pub: Nelson Books ISBN 0-7852-6429-9

* 2004 ''Cosmic Codes: Hidden Messages'' Pub: Koinonia House ISBN 1-57821-255-3

=== Software/Audio CDs ===

* The Book of Revelation

* Learn the Bible in 24 Hours

* The Rapture

=== VHS/DVD ===

* The DaVinci Deception

* Proving the Bible Reliable

* Return of the Nephilim

* UFO's and the Coming Deception

* Daniel's 70 Weeks

* How We Got the Bible

==External links==

*[http://raptureready.com/who/Chuck_Missler.html] Short Bio

*[http://www.khouse.org/ Koinonia House]– Official Missler website

*[http://www.oneplace.com/Ministries/6640/host_bio.asp?show_id=212] Additional Short Bio

*[http://oneplace.com/ministries/6640/ 66/40]– - Missler's daily radio show

*[http://www.khouse.org/pages/mcat/khouse/about_the_misslers/ Official biography]

*[http://server.firefighters.org/missler.asp Firefighters.org] – Has several of Missler's studies available in mp3 format

*[http://www.alienencounters.com/chuckbio.html] Additional Short Bio

*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504 Video]. Chuck explains away evolution theory with the aid of a jar of peanut butter.

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