David1701
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This post is full of nonsense!That is your mental consent, demons believing who Jesus is? from that one verse you derive a doctrine concerning mental assent?
Regarding straying. Yes of course the verse teaches they stray from the truth, that is the interpretation I have supported, but you have claimed that they were never in the truth. Therfefore you minimize the words stray and return.
Jesus is the truth, if they were in the truth, with the truth, then they were in/with Jesus and then they strayed and therfore need to return.
If you are reading this to mean that they unnderstood some ideas, then they cannot stray and return.
It's mental assent (not consent).
I didn't say that I derived the doctrine of mental assent from the one verse I mentioned. It was just one clear example.
Being "in the truth" is not what we were discussing. We were discussing accepting the truth.
Of course someone can can stray, then possibly return, from understanding the truth; but, I wasn't talking about understanding the truth; I was talking about accepting that the truth is true.
You are veering all over the place, seemingly unable to understand or articulate logical points. Please try to stick to what we are actually discussing.