Welcome to My Blog!

Welcome. My name is Reed K. Merino, author of Blueprint for a Revolution: Building Upon ALL of The New Testament! I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and…

Peter, Paul, and James Come Back for an Interview

Peter, Paul, and James Come Back for an Interview, “to see whether or not the people will carefully walk in the path marked out by the LORD, as their ancestors were careful to do” (Judges 2:22).   “When Saul saw the camp of the…

Old Testament Israel and New Testament Church Histories: An Embarrassing and Humbling Parallel!

Old Testament Israel and New Testament Church Histories: An Embarrassing and Humbling Parallel!   Both Israel and His Church were called into being by God Himself. The span of time from Abraham TO Jesus is the same as that FROM Jesus to us. He…

THE CHRISTIANITY THAT JESUS BROUGHT WITH HIM IS AN EXPERIENTIAL RELIGION, not just believing His revealed facts and obeying what He commands.

THE CHRISTIANITY THAT JESUS BROUGHT WITH HIM IS AN EXPERIENTIAL RELIGION, not just believing His revealed facts and obeying what He commands.   He led them to “believe.” He led them to “obey.” And He led them to EXPERIENCE!”   Just look at the…

Jesus  Spoke With Both Scientific And Divine Authority

Jesus  Spoke With Both Scientific And Divine Authority   In this essay I am going to try to convince you that Jesus used His language in the same way that professional linguists and scientists do. As a result, the New Testament turns out to…

Love that Obeys Because of Love of the Good

How do you interpret the following?: “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love…

My Pilgrimage With “Biblical Literalism” Going All The Way To “Do NOT Resist Him Who is Evil”

My Pilgrimage With “Biblical Literalism” Going All The Way To “Do NOT Resist Him Who is Evil”   On Sunday the preacher of the church we were visiting wove the way we can treat the forgotten “un-wars” that America has known, like Korea’s “police…

May God End the Warfare Between Calvinistic Christians and Arminian Christians!

May God End the Warfare Between Calvinistic Christians and Arminian Christians! An essay in response to the charge that: “If God commands all to repent, and yet withholds the only grace that would make repentance possible, how is that command sincere?” That sounds quite…

There CAN be Peace Between Calvinists and Arminians Who ALSO Have God’s Love ‎Motivating Them!‎

There CAN be Peace Between Calvinists and Arminians Who ALSO Have God’s Love ‎Motivating Them!‎ ‎[This is what I wrote to a group who were engaged in a Facebook debate for and against ‎‎“Calvinism.”]‎ I have been studying, discussing, and debating this issue since…

“SOLA SCRIPTURA” CAN CAUSE OUR BECOMING CONDEMNED AS WELL AS OUR BECOMING COMPLIMENTED

“SOLA SCRIPTURA” CAN CAUSE OUR BECOMING CONDEMNED AS WELL AS OUR BECOMING COMPLIMENTED This essay is not addressed to you as an individual, but to the corporate form of Christianity in which you may find yourself: “Protestant,” Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Evangelical, Anabaptist, Fundamentalist,…

“The Slaughter of the Innocents” and God’s Intervention in our History

“The Slaughter of the Innocents” and God’s Intervention in our History   This sad story was the Gospel reading for Sunday’s Eucharistic liturgy: Matthew 2:7…15 “Then Herod  privately summoned the wise men and determined from them when the star had appeared. He  sent them…