How do preachers or teachers explain this?

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Dino246 said:
Gee... how about SO YOU CAN DISMISS OTHERS when they tell you that you are wrong and don't know how to interpret Scripture?
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I am sharing the truth from the word of God, not to receive praise from anyone, but to find God’s lost sheep. If they do not accept what I share and say that I am wrong, I will simply let them hold on to their beliefs. Perhaps they are not the ones I am meant to reach. How can you say that is the reason?
 
Dino246 said:
Ego. You feed your ego. Your rationalization certainly is NOT the truth.
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Only the Lord Jesus has the right to say, “I am the truth,” not you. What you are doing is putting yourself on an equal footing with God. You are not God; you are only a human being.
JOHN 14:6
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
 
Dino246 said:
I didn't change what I said. YOU chose not to read what I said and instead assumed that I changed it. That's why I said "You don't read too good."

But, apparently, you didn't read that too good either.
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Here, read this carefully so that you can understand your own contradictory statements.

First, you do not believe that God’s name is written on the white stone.

Second, you say that I have not been given the white stone.
If that is the case, then you are essentially saying that God’s name is written on the white stone, but that I have not been given one.


Revelation 2:17 does not say "the stone with My Name written on it". Your assumption is baseless.



You haven't been given a white stone either, so give up your silly ego trip.
 
Godsgood said:
What a disciple knows cannot be greater than what the Lord knows. However, if the Lord has revealed something to the disciple, then they both know it.
LUKE 6:40
40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

From the common human understanding, the terms you refer to as “Lord” and “I Am” are regarded as names of God. This is what they preach to people, and therefore it is also what you believe. But you do not know the true name of the one true God.
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They are not just "regarded as" names of God. God Himself said that they are. For example:

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Exo 3:14 And God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM." And He said, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.' "
Exo 3:15 Moreover God said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: 'The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.'

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Isa 42:8 I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.

Godsgood said:
That is evidence that you are not among those who have overcome and have been given the white stone on which the name of God is written. That name is a secret, and therefore only those who have been given it know it.
REVELATION 2:17
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
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But Revelation 2:17 is not about God's name, but about God giving a name to "him that overcometh."
Godsgood said:
How can the word “Lord” and the phrase “I Am” be a name when those words are openly known? Even those who do not believe in the Lord Jesus can easily know them simply by reading the Scriptures.

So, despite your insistence that you know the one true God, you have not been given the white stone. What would that be in the presence of the Lord? Would that be speaking truthfully or lying?
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I would ask you this: Was God lying when He said to Moses and Isaiah, "That is My name"?
 
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