Hi Aguest ,sorry to be so long replying ,been busy , I'm not going to anylyze point by point your reply for you are sincere in your beliefs but I would like to say that humility is really important to the lord .
Not that all approach him on bended knee but that they have a capacity ,even an inner humility that we with our eyes may not see for people may be, say, in an important job for instance and that gives them a demeanor that may hide this potential humility that others wish to extinguish within themselves as a percieved weakness ,but the lord looks for this .
Scriptually this can be demonstrated by the disciples trying to shoo away the children from the lord but he chastised them for the Kingdom belongs to such like ones ,that is ones willing to humble themselves .
That is why I disagree with you confessing the lord expects faith first for faith is not gained unless knowlege is given first so a humble heart can respond to it .Otherwise we would be saying the lord is racially prejudiced in the end for he and the spirit are rejecting millions of chinese,indians etcetc for not having faith first when geographically they have'nt been given any knowlege because of where they live and never had the predominance of opportunity that you've had in America to her the lords voice - in other words how could the lord ever call on someone who has never heard of him simply because of their geographic locality! How can that one put faith in him ,you make itsound like it's their fault for not believing in him.
It's that type of thinking that reminds me of the WTS who say Armaggeddon could be tomorrow and therefore condemning billions simply for their locality.