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The rest of your post is mostly a rant against Paul who I understand you dismiss out of hand anyway

Ranting? You call showing you that Matthew says not all who call on Lord's name shall be saved, and Paul and Luke and Joel say just the opposite, ranting?

Please, show me why is Mat 7:21-23 "true" and Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13 and Joel 2:32 are not. If I rant, it's because everyone is pretending the emperor has clothes when he is buck naked. Wake up people!

However it should be noted that Jesus Christ certainly is within His authority as God to use the word “fool” without the penalty He speaks in Matt 5.

Matthew also says that whosever calls someone a fool is in danger of hell fire. When I show you that so many authors, especially Paul, call other people fools or foolish, you are dismissive.

This is not an issue whether Jesus is "within His authority" (or some other nonsense like that) to call anyone a fool. Of course it's "within His authority!" but He wouldn't because He would have to call everyone a fool! Yet, Paul, on the other hand, finds it easy to call some fools and some saints, insisting that some are better than others. That should tell you everything about that man and "his" gosepl, as he calls it (that is, the one he invented).

[... Please, show me why is Mat 7:21-23 "true" and Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13 and Joel 2:32 are not. ..]

Easy answer.. context and spirit.. Mouthing the name of the lord is NOT calling on the name of the lord.. You can actually call out to God and not even use his name.. Its a spiritual thing.. In the spirit/Spirit, language is Not really needed.. deep can call out to deep..

As any that know the Lord but are deaf and/or dumb knows intimately..

[... Matthew also says that whosever calls someone a fool is in danger of hell fire. ..]

Probably because many FOOLS are just telling you what you need to hear but are too arrogant to see.. Happens to all of us at sometime..

Sorry to be tardy with my reply! I ran out of steam last night.

Please, show me why is Mat 7:21-23 "true" and Acts 2:21, Romans 10:13 and Joel 2:32 are not.

They are all Truth. Cherry picking Scripture can result in a perception of paradox which is not real.

Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: - Luke 24:25

The cherry picked verses are shown in context below, the operative phrases which reveal the unity are underlined:

In this passage, Christ says that calling out His name is not evidence that He “knows” a person:

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. - Matt 7:21-23

This is not “know” in the sense of recognize – but “know” in the sense of intimacy. The devils for instance knew Christ and spoke His Name:

And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking [them] suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ. – Luke 4:41

When Christ “knows” us – He makes that intimate connection – that baptism of the Holy Spirit which makes us a new creature in Him:

I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. – John 10:14-15

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - John 10:26-27

Other uses of the term with this intimacy meaning:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. – Gen 2:17

Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you. – Deu 9:24

They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new [gods that] came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. – Deu 32:17

Marital intimacy is a “type” of this knowing:

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. – Gen 4:1

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. – Eph 5:31-32

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. – Matt 19:6

The following passage speaks to our profession of faith. To paraphrase, if we declare Christ, He will declare us – if we deny Him, he will deny us. The person who calls upon the Name of the Lord is the one Jesus Christ knows in Matt 7 and John 10:

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? - Romans 10:9-14

See also:

Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. – Matt 10:32-33

The following passage - and Acts 2:21 which cites it - reaches to the end of what began at Pentecost, i.e. Christ’s millennial Sabbath reign on earth which is followed by the new heaven and earth. The calling out to the Lord is by all flesh upon whom God has poured out His Spirit, those who enter His rest, the remnant:

And it shall come to pass afterward, [that] I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come. And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call. - Joel 2:28-32

But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 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: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: And it shall come to pass, [that] whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. - Acts 2:16-21