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# Blueprint for a Revolution: Building Upon ALL of the New Testament

Reed K. Merino, B.A., M. Div.

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- [Let Me Tell You About The Jesus That I Have Come To Know And Love](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/07/14/let-me-tell-you-about-the-jesus-that-i-have-come-to-know-and-love/) - Let Me Tell You About The Jesus That I Have Come To Know And Love The Jesus that I serve is called “the Lord” in the New Testament. The reason that He is was given that title is because it was also HE who was called “the Lord” in the Old Testament. He
- [THE IMPORTANCE OF PERSONAL LOYALTY TO JESUS](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/06/28/the-importance-of-personal-loyalty-to-jesus/) - THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR PERSONAL LOYALTY TO JESUS The personal loyalty that David inspired among his fellow warriors: “At the time of the harvest three of the thirty leaders went down to David at the cave of Adullam. A band of Philistines was camped in the valley of Rephaim. David was in the stronghold at
- [The Consequences of the Role that Emperor Constantine had in ‎the Council of Nicaea](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/06/23/the-consequences-of-the-role-that-emperor-constantine-had-in-the-council-of-nicaea/) - I asked Google Gemini to describe the role that Emperor Constantine had in ‎the Council of Nicaea (6/23/26):‎ Gemini:‎ In Book III of Life of Constantine (Vita Constantini), Eusebius of ‎Caesarea provides the most famous eyewitness account of Emperor ‎Constantine’s grand arrival and initial speech at the First Council of Nicaea ‎‎(325 AD). ‎ Below
- [Just HOW petty are those supposedly petty details in the New Testament?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/06/05/just-how-petty-are-those-supposedly-petty-details-in-the-new-testament/) - Just HOW petty are those supposedly petty details in the New Testament? In the Christianity to which I was introduced, during the 1940-50’s, the women – my mother included - wore some kind of hat or covering in church. Catholic women seemed to wear some kind of veil, and Protestants some kind of hat. We
- [IMPORTANT CAVEAT WHEN USING ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/06/04/important-caveat-when-using-artifical-intelligence-software/) - ​I have been engaged in an interesting query and debate with my Google Ai Gemini "buddy" about some scientific issues (mostelly evolution versus ID). At the end of the debate I summarized how I understood it to be siding with the numerical majority and THEIR definition of "science". I had challenged it with the observation
- [GOD’S New Covenant of Salvation Contains SPECIFIC Details!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/05/25/gods-new-covenant-of-salvation-contains-specific-details/) - [I could apologize for the length of this essay. But, I do a lot of studying to produce my essays and they are produced for those who like to study rather than casually read a few thoughts.] GOD’S New Covenant of Salvation Contains SPECIFIC Details! Here in the American democracy-influenced culture of individualism,
- [HIS Experienced Gospel Leads to HIS Experienced Pentecost!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/05/16/his-experienced-gospel-leads-to-his-experienced-pentecost/) - HIS Experienced Gospel Leads to HIS Experienced Pentecost! In the person, deeds, conversations, and teachings of the divinely incarnate Jesus we see as much of our Father in Heaven as CAN be revealed in a human being. In the words that His released Spirit inspired His anointed ones to write, we see as much
- [A DIOLOGUE WITH GOOGLE Ai GEMINI ABOUT THE 4TH CENTURY ‎EVOLUTION AWAY FROM NON-VIOLENCE](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/05/14/a-diologue-with-google-ai-gemini-about-the-4th-century-evolution-away-from-non-violence/) - A DIOLOGUE WITH GOOGLE Ai GEMINI ABOUT THE 4TH CENTURY ‎EVOLUTION AWAY FROM NON-VIOLENCE [My justification for using Ai in mattes of church history is that I trained to be a professor of Patristics at the seminary and graduate school level, and have the means of checking out the historical accuracy of Gemini's statements] ‎[The
- [FROM FAITHFULNESS TO JESUS AND ORIGINAL CATHOLIC CHURCH TO CLEVER "JUST WAR" WARRIORS!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/05/13/from-faithfulness-to-jesus-and-original-catholic-church-to-clever-just-war-warriors/) - FOLLOWING IS A DIALOGUE THAT I JUST HAD WITH GOOGLE’S GEMINI (Ai) about the change that occurred in the very nature of Christ’s Church as a result of abandoning Jesus’s teachings and abandoning its OWN earlier teachings. Would that so many of you post-Constantinian Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox defenders of your churches could be as
- [Jesus Created His Church to be an Continuing Extension of What He Had Incarnated!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/05/01/jesus-created-his-church-to-be-an-continuing-extension-of-what-he-had-incarnated/) - Jesus Created His Church to be an Continuing Extension of What He Had Incarnated! I have created and distributed freely a number of essays as well as a two-volume Biblical catechism, “Blueprint for a Revolution: Building Upon ALL of the New Testament.” In them I have described in considerable detail the mighty results of
- [How God’s “Little Children,” Spirit-filled Fishermen Understand What Jesus Said](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/04/25/how-gods-little-children-spirit-filled-fishermen-understand-what-jesus-said/) - Examples of how God’s “Little Children,” Spirit-filled Fishermen Understand What Jesus Said [OR, "How to read the Apostolic Writins like a fisherman, farmer, or carpenter!] “Have this [same] MIND in you that was in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5; “mind” – “way of thinking” / “attitude” / “instincts”) “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you
- [WITH REGARD TO THE "LORD'S SUPPER" OR "EUCHARIST"](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/04/19/with-regard-to-the-lords-supper-or-eucharist/) - WITH REGARD TO THE "LORD'S SUPPER" OR "EUCHARIST": Christians need to analyze Biblical passages in the way exemplified by the parsing diagram below. Jesus is the one who INVENTED languages and the ability to communicate with words, and like any good communicator, He knew how to say and inspire the writing of what He MEANS
- [Peter, Paul, and James Come Back for an Interview](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/04/15/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 Philistines, he was absolutely terrified. So Saul inquired of the LORD,
- [Old Testament Israel and New Testament Church Histories:  An Embarrassing and Humbling Parallel!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/04/08/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 has been the LORD of their history AND of ours! And
- [THE CHRISTIANITY THAT JESUS BROUGHT WITH HIM IS AN EXPERIENTIAL RELIGION, not just believing His revealed facts and obeying what He commands.](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/04/07/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 way that He "processed" His disciples in the Gospels: He personally
- [Jesus  Spoke With Both Scientific And Divine Authority](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/03/30/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 be MUCH more clear than any of our denominations treat it
- [Love that Obeys Because of Love of the Good](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/03/20/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 Me does not keep My words; and the word which you
- [My Pilgrimage With “Biblical Literalism” Going All The Way To “Do NOT Resist Him Who is Evil”](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/02/25/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 action,” into the way that we may be treating the sacrifice
- [May God End the Warfare Between Calvinistic Christians and Arminian Christians!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/02/20/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 logical, friend. But we are not to process what is revealed
- [There CAN be Peace Between Calvinists and Arminians Who ALSO Have God’s Love ‎Motivating Them!‎](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/02/11/there-can-be-peace-between-calvinists-and-arminians-who-also-have-gods-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 1977, when I got to ‎know a brilliant Calvinist. Not having
- [“SOLA SCRIPTURA” CAN CAUSE OUR BECOMING CONDEMNED AS WELL AS OUR BECOMING COMPLIMENTED](https://www.reedmerino.com/2026/01/13/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, Pentecostal, Charismatic, “non-denominational,” house-church, or other. We are the inheritors of
- [“The Slaughter of the Innocents” and God’s Intervention in our History](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/12/30/the-slaughter-of-the-innocents-and-gods-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 to Bethlehem and said, ‘Go and look carefully for the child.
- [A Journey From PhD Complexity to Fisherman Simplicity](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/12/25/a-journey-from-phd-complexity-to-fisherman-simplicity/) - A Journey From PhD Complexity to Fisherman Simplicity True Conversion to Jesus: Yielding to ALL of His Teachings, ALL of His Promises, ALL of His Commands, Plus Abandoning Your Adulthood for His Childhood! Authentic, Biblical Christianity – the “Christianity” that JESUS brought into being - demands that anyone who wants to take the path that
- [Another Tragedy Within Our Fractured Christianity](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/12/01/another-tragedy-within-our-fractured-christianity/) - Another Tragedy Of Our Fractured Christianity: Churches Where It Is Easy To Be A Functional Unbeliever With Access To His Eucharist AND Churches Full Of Functional Believers With NO Access To His Eucharist! This morning, I was able to take a break from being ​my wife's sort of "nurse’s aide" after her hip replacement
- [“Knowing” God, Like “Knowing” ANY Person, Means Knowing Them From the INSIDE!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/11/20/knowing-god-like-knowing-any-person-means-knowing-them-from-the-inside/) - "Knowing" God, Like "Knowing" ANY Person, Means Knowing Them From the INSIDE! Our ability to understand or wrap our minds around another person depends upon our ability to fit what goes on inside of their thoughts, their decision-making process, and their emotions into our thoughts, our way of making decisions, and our emotions. If that
- [How Jesus Fulfilled The Old Testament Sacrifices AND How You Take Part In His Sacrifice!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/11/02/how-jesus-fulfilled-the-old-testament-sacrifices-and-how-you-take-part-in-his-sacrifice/) - How Jesus Fulfilled The Old Testament Sacrifices AND How You Take Part In His Sacrifice! “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17). It is common to relate that declaration of Jesus to
- [“That they may be one as we are …” - What I Learned From The “CHURCH OF CHRIST”](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/10/20/that-they-may-be-one-as-we-are-what-i-learned-from-the-church-of-christ/) - “That they may be one as we are …” - What I Learned From The “CHURCH OF CHRIST” All of the sincere movements to restore Christ’s Church to her apostolic foundations have been the result of some group of earnest Christians realizing that some portion of the teachings of Jesus and His apostles that
- [Is Your Jesus TOO "Divine"?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/10/15/is-your-jesus-too-divine/) - ​Is Your Jesus TOO Divine? We humans relate more easily to people we can see, hear, touch, and experience, rather than gigantic historical figures like George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. The Jesus I grew up with in church was sort of like an Abraham Lincoln, someone who USED to exist and was at the center
- [Soldiers CAN Make the Best Converts to Jesus’s Kingdom!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/09/06/soldiers-can-make-the-best-converts-to-jesuss-kingdom/) - Soldiers CAN Make the Best Converts to Jesus’s Kingdom! Luke 8:5-13 “And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, begging Him, and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, terribly tormented.’ Jesus said to him, ‘I will come and heal him.’ But the centurion replied, ‘Lord, I am not worthy for
- [Biblical “Inspiration” Includes Careful Crafting And Purposeful Selection Of What Was Recorded](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/09/06/biblical-inspiration-includes-careful-crafting-and-purposeful-selection-of-what-was-recorded/) - Biblical “Inspiration” Includes Careful Crafting And Purposeful Selection Of What Was Recorded “There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written” (John 21:25). [What the apostle John wrote about his gospel’s contents
- [God's Role in Your OWN Salvation](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/07/27/god-role-in-your-own-salvation/) - A FB friend posted this question in response to an essay I had posted: "Reed, do you believe in limited atonement." That "limited atonement" is a teaching that Christ only came to save SPECIFIC people - His "elect." Among Christians who delight in arguing theoretical points about which they seem not to understand well, this
- [Christianity THEN versus Christianity NOW!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2025/08/21/christianity-then-versus-christianity-now/) - ​HOW MARCUS BECAME A CHRISTIAN IN 90 A.D. In what follows I will be describing one imaginary but realistic scenario about a person becoming a Christian in the first decades of the apostolic era: how they came to believe that Jesus was God’s eternally divine Son, along with what decisions, events, and experiences they underwent.
- [Theological Warfare against Stereotypical Enemies](https://www.reedmerino.com/2024/12/01/theological-warfare-against-stereotypical-enemies/) - The enemy loves when we base our judgments upon stereotypes! In the Facebook theological discussion groups I have joined there is an enormous amount to stereotyping heaved back and forth between proponents of the Calvinist/Reformed movements and the rest of "Evangelical" Christianity. I wonder how many of those who are so engaged have ever gotten
- [CYBER WARFARE, GENETIC ENGINEERING , AND THE END OF DAYS!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2024/06/03/cyber-warfare-genetic-engineering-and-the-end-of-days/) - CYBER WARFARE, GENETIC ENGINEERING , AND THE END OF DAYS! Step One - Cyber Warfare: I just finished watching a very eye-opening and disturbing documentary made in 2016 called “Zero Days.” It is mostly about the discovery in 2010 of by FAR the most powerful and destructive computer virus, named “Stuxnet,” that had been known
- [To Truly Love Nature, You Must See its Creator!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/08/03/to-truly-love-nature-you-must-see-its-creator/) - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE “Your attitude of gratitude should be commensurate with the value of the gift!” For my high school graduation my parents paid for my school ring. Since many other parents did that in ADDITION to a graduate present, my “attitude of gratitude” was rather minimal. Now, if I had been given my DREAM
- [ARE YOU “FILTERING” OR “ORGANIZING” THE TEACHING OF JESUS?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/07/26/are-you-filtering-or-organizing-the-teaching-of-jesus/) - ARE YOU “FILTERING” OR “ORGANIZING” THE TEACHING OF JESUS? Every morning I make a thermos of my favorite Chinese Puerh loose tea. After letting it steep in boiling water for about three minutes I pour it though my strainer, pollute it with honey and cream and start enjoying it. That strainer is a “filter”
- [Pentecost is for Today and for YOU!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/05/28/pentecost-is-for-today-and-for-you/) - A Letter About Pentecost Sunday I attended an Anglican church this morning with a friend, to celebrate Pentecost Sunday. I had been talking and studying with him about the New Testament teaching that "Pentecost" is an event that is supposed to be a part of EVERY true disciple's experience, normally at or soon after their
- [He was SERIOUS when He said "This is my body..."](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/05/27/he-was-serious-when-he-said-this-is-my-body/) - I do encourage you to let it be the Lord Jesus who guides you in this matter, and I pray that you earnestly seek for Him to do so, in the same intensity with which you probably did when praying about that "baptism in the Holy Spirit." But, apart from the words Jesus actually CHOSE
- [“If YOU don’t kill yourself, then I’ll have to do it FOR you!”](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/04/25/if-you-dont-kill-yourself-then-ill-have-to-do-it-for-you/) - “If YOU don’t kill yourself, then I’ll have to do it FOR you!” "38 You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' 39 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other
- [Are All Versions of the New Testament Equally Reliable?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/02/21/are-all-versions-of-the-new-testament-equally-reliable/) - THE IMPORTANCE OF A LEGITIMATE TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT Most versions of the New Testament and Bible teachers declare something like, "No matter WHAT version of the New Testament you use, no substantial doctrine will be affected by it." That statement is largely true, but has a dangerous "non-truth" hidden within it. The principles
- [God Describes His Version of Election AFTER He Has Captured Us!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/11/23/god-describes-his-version-of-election-after-he-has-captured-us/) - God Describes His Version of Election AFTER He Has Captured Us! Christians have been debating "Predestination or Free Will" probably starting the week after Paul wrote Romans 8-9! It probably raises more contention than any other topic Christians pick to argue about. In the Bluerint For a Revolution I have also presented my own
- [God CAN become your friend](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/01/28/god-can-become-your-friend/) - DO YOU “KNOW” JESUS? “7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the KNOWLEDGE of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that
- [You may well need to yet receive the Holy Spirit](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/01/28/you-may-well-need-to-yet-receive-the-holy-spirit/) - Is the Holy Spirit WITH you, or IN you? “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells WITH
- [Good Organizational Principles Take A Look At Infant Baptism](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/02/13/good-organizational-principles-take-a-look-at-infant-baptism/) - GOOD ORGANIZATIONAL PRINCIPLES TAKE A LOOK AT INFANT BAPTISM It may seem strange to evaluate a religious practice by looking at it from a secular viewpoint. But GOD’s idea of “religion” is much more inclusive than the picture which most of us have. And, after all, He explicitly designed the organization of His church –
- [Honoring Incomplete Christians Who Went Before Us](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/02/13/honoring-incomplete-christians-who-went-before-us/) - Honoring Incomplete Christians Who Went Before Us In our FB discussion groups dealing with restoring the Church to her original condition, there are obviously a number of you who highly critical of what you see within Christendom today. And you can count me among your ranks! But where I am NOT like many
- [Faith alone, Works alone, Faith AND Works?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2023/02/16/faith-alone-works-alone-faith-and-works/) - A new and young friend asked for my input about the issue of faith and works as they pertain to salvation. Here is my reply: *********************************************************************** You wrote, '...some people claim, "salvation by faith alone", but they didn't seem to consider scriptures where we are commanded to "be perfect" or "strive to enter the narrow
- ["Predestination" or "Free Will"?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/11/06/predestination-or-free-will/) - Regarding "predestination" versus "free will": I am 81 years old, and have been studying both the Scriptures and Church history rather intensely for a bit over 60 years now. One of the less attractive features of our human nature that I have observed is that we humans tend to want simple answers that do not
- [Lethal Self-defense?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/10/16/lethal-self-defense/) - I have been in a discussion with some serious Christians, who think it is proper for them to use lethal means to defend themselves against those who seek to do them harm. Logically that would require them to take the same action when your country goes to war (or at least a supposedly "just war").
- [The Intelligence of God](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/10/14/the-intelligence-of-god/) - The Intelligence of God According to the evolutionary, god-less world: the universe just “happened” into its current form, because of pre-existing agents of change: nuclear reactions, gravity, movement of air and water, freezing/thawing, chemical attraction and repulsion, and other factors. However, if the universe WAS designed, the designer would have had to possess a brilliance
- [The Experiential Nature of Apostolic Christianity](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/09/21/the-experiential-nature-of-apostolic-christianity/) - The Experiential Nature of Apostolic Christianity If you read through the New Testament carefully, it becomes obvious that what Jesus brought to the earth contains many specific things to believe, to do, to not do, and attitudes to have when believing and doing them. But what makes His version of Christianity a supernatu-ral Way of
- [ELECTION FERVOR MOUNTING? AVOID THE CONSTANTINIAN HOPE!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/09/06/election-fervor-mounting-avoid-the-constantinian-hope/) - ELECTION FERVOR MOUNTING? AVOID THE CONSTANTINIAN HOPE! This coming mid-term election seems to be one of the most important in the history of this nation. I have lived through fifteen national and thirty mid-term elections, and have never known one whose outcome portends such dramatic results, depending upon which party wins big. If the Democrats
- [The Quartodeciman Controversy OR How Controversies Should NOT Be Resolved!](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/09/02/323/) - I belong to an academic organization (Academia.org) that presents its members' papers for discussion. I have occasionally been invited to take part in those discussions. I just finished responding to a gentleman's paper about the so-called "Quartodeciman Controversy." This was among the earlier controversies that arose in church history, toward the end of the second
- [Why Did God Test Adam And Eve?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/08/10/why-did-god-test-adam-and-eve/) - Why Did God Test Adam And Eve? (A Leap From Genesis 2-3 to Revelation 21-22) Yesterday, our nine-month-old puppy Bella provided a real-life parable to demonstrate the answer to this question. We have had her since she was two months old and are taking great delight in her. She is a smart as that proverbial
- [Just Imagine - A Day in the Life of an Apostolic Church (part one)](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/07/25/just-imagine-a-day-in-the-life-of-an-apostolic-church-part-one/) - Following is a section of Chapter Eight of my Blueprint for a Revolution: Building Upon ALL of the New Testament. It describes how all or most of the teachings presented within that Blueprint might be lived out within a Christian community on a given day. This is the first of three or four installments from
- [His Atonement: Rescue as well as Forgiveness](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/07/14/his-atonement-rescue-as-well-as-forgiveness/) - There have been a number of postings on the Facebook group regarding the nature of the atonement that Jesus has made possible for us. There are proponents of the “ransom” that He paid to Satan, and proponents of His “substitution” for us in order to take God’s wrath in our place. Some wisely do not
- ["Open Theism" - the Product of "cherry picking" Scriptures](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/06/25/open-theism-the-product-of-cherry-picking-scriptures/) - HOW TO PROCESS BIBLICAL CLUES Here is a cardinal rule to use when interpreting a Scriptural passage: In the mind of the Holy Spirit, every passage that He inspired assumes the presence of ALL the other passages that belong together, passages which He had likewise inspired. Therefore, all such passages must be gathered together before
- [BIBLICAL Predestination (versus the other kinds!)](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/06/25/307/) - BIBLICAL Predestination (versus the other kinds!) (A young man, also a Calvinist, asked me to explain "Predestination." Following is a sort of "Readers Digest" version of the chapter on the subject in Volume One of the Blueprint For A Revolution: Building Upon ALL Of The New Testament) The heart of the BIBLICAL version of "predestination" and
- [What about that ancient Mongolian who never heard of the Bible or Jesus or the Gospel Message?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/05/26/what-about-that-ancient-mongolian-who-never-heard-of-the-bible-or-jesus-or-the-gospel-message/) - This is a common question that many of us have been asked, especially by people who are hearing for the first time about how God requires that we accept the authority and teaching of Jesus in order to have a saving relationship with our Creator. It is often said as follows, "It doesn't seem fair
- [Can we share the Eucharist before the Apostolic Church is Restored?](https://www.reedmerino.com/2022/05/18/can-we-share-the-eucharist-before-the-apostolic-church-is-restored/) - Before we share a "valid" Lord's Supper must we first evolve, through the stretching of the Spirit of Jesus into the same kind of community that had actually received the first Eucharist by Jesus in the Gospels? I write at some length about it in the Blueprint. Among other things, the Eucharist was created to
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