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Originally Posted by Raptor
The point is about what the Bible says in those verses. I wrote dozens of verses and tried to put them together with an explanation and you donīt attempt to explain anything at all, neither how they fit together or make any comments on the verses themselves, which is 99% what I wrote about. You just try to poke holes in what WL said or find fault in some 1% of my post. Talk about straining the gnat and swallowing the camel. The post is not about what WL said or did not say, or what the Bible does not say. The post is about what the Bible says in all those verses, and about how, when you put them together, at one level they seem contradictory, hard to explain and go against so many traditional and conventional doctrine and understandings. Yet you donīt say anything about that. So no, you donīt do that.
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Raptor, regarding these two scriptural truths, i.e. that (1) believers should call on the name of the Lord and (2) that God is uniquely one, some have become so Anti-Lee that they are also Anti-Bible and Anti-truth.
Let me say clearly that I definitely reject many of WL's teachings. I am not promoting him, but rather promoting the Word of God. Also, let me definitively say that there is no mandate for salvation in the scripture concerning this second truth.
I do find it troublesome that some are unwilling to concede the truths displayed in certain verses because they don't fit their mindset about God. They resolutely refuse to acknowledge that we are only pointing out verses that they don't agree with. It's not me they disagree with, it is the writers of the Bible. I am simply willing to admit that I can't explain God, and that some verses appear contradictory. In the New Covenant we are called to know God, not be able to explain Him in full. John Wesley wrote, "
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and I will show you a man who can comprehend the Triune God."
If some folks refuse to call on the Lord, that's really fine with me. I'm glad that you love the Lord and have the liberty to pray and fellowship with God as you desire. If some folks view God as 3 separate "Persons," I am fine with that too. That's far better than so many genuine believers in the RCC who still pray to Mary and the so-called saints.