How can people from another religion or rank liberals speak about the Lord and the Holy Spirit and still know nothing?
They can speak about the Lord and the Holy Spirit because they use the right terminology, which makes it seem they know what they are talking about. Yet they know nothing. Peter says they twist the Scriptures to their own destruction. This is mere terminology, not true understanding.
Les teaches that the issue is not the vocabulary but the absence of genuine knowledge. He points out that a rank liberal, or even someone from a different religion altogether, can speak of the Lord and speak of the Holy Spirit, making you think they know what they are talking about, when in reality they know nothing. They use the right terminology. Les connects this to Peter’s meaning that they twist the Scriptures to their own destruction. He then returns to Romans 1:16 and the one Gospel.