Well, I don't think that's intentional. I could be wrong but with him it feels to me like a simple paradigm issue. It doesn't seem to me like he isn't seeing it because he won't but because I can't. It's like showing the color green to someone with red tinted glasses on. It just doesn't work.
Exactly.
And paradigm issues are different for each person - some see some things right away, others, only after much time going back and forth with whomever is attempting to point a thing out to them.
And it depends on other, closely related things a person is already clear on, and or comes to grow clearer, on over time.
Still, others merely grow worse in their view, become even more married to it.
Largely because they do not give the other side the benefit of the doubt, and actually bother to search The Scriptures DAILY whether what is being asserted to them is, or is not so, Acts 17: 11,12.
Searching The Srciptures, daily, NOT isolated passages.
Heck, even his pet verse, Mark 16:16 cannot even begin to be rightly understood, absent of what the Lord had said to the Twelve some three years or more BEFORE The Cross, in the latter half of Matthew 10.
And that part of Matthew 10 is just a fraction of the information needed from Scripture AS A WHOLE, if one is to properly understand, Mark 16.
Never mind the need to also constantly study in depth the Law and the Prophets the Lord had often based what He'd say, do, and or instruct others to do, on.
As in Matthew 8:1-4, to use one of the simpler examples, what He instructed that Israelite to do, is right out of Leviticus 14.
Turbo's paradigm is clearly that of the traditions of men he has so obviously been confused by, together with his own reading into one thing or another.
The result being that although his intentions might be good, he is too determined to prove his misunderstandings are sound, to actually be reasoned with from Scripture.
Hopefully he is off somewhere finally giving attendance to reading, at the very least, Exodus thru Deuteronomy, the very basis of both The Prophets and Matthew thru Early Acts, Isaiah 8, John 5, Acts 2 and 3.
Isaiah 8:13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. 8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 8:15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken. 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 8:17 And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 8:18 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion. 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
5:46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 5:47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Acts 2:16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 2:18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
2:19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
3:23 And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
3:24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
There's the problem - Turbo has repeatedly refused to abide by Isaiah 8:20 on all that.
And until he at least actually for a time puts aside his just skepticism (given the ever obvious bliss of his ill-informed paradigm) and actually abides by Isaiah 8:20 by investing some time in Exodus through Deuteronomy (as a start), there will be no reasoning with him based on an attempt to reason with someone who is familiar with where the other side is actually coming from.
Til then, his kind will continue to be not much better in their good intentions than the Apostle of the Gentiles had once been, despite his own good intentions...
Acts 26:9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Try the Three-Fold Study Principle so obviously clear in Acts 17:11, 12, turbo.
Romans 5:6-8.
