“Correct me if I’m wrong,” means exactly that, though, af_vet_1981. There’s the “if” in there. And if you’re going to claim that I was wrong, then you should do more than claim, but show me how you think so.
“Correct me if I’m wrong” is also a commonly used expression. I chose to use it there because, for one thing, while I’d carefully considered our conversation, I know I’m human. I could have somehow missed something along the way, although I didn’t think so. So, again, it was an opportunity for you to show me, with evidence, where you think I’d gotten something wrong, IF you did. And in that case, it was an opportunity to see if there might just be some misunderstanding somewhere between us, even on your part. So my use of that phrase doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to accept any answer you give, if the evidence isn’t there, which it isn’t. I went back after your last reply and read over our whole dialogue here, and you consistently refused to affirm the truth of all that’s in Ephesians 2 that we’ve been discussing, until you told me I wasn’t reading you correctly. If any error has been made in terms of what you believe on those passages in Ephesians 2, it’s you who didn’t communicate your beliefs accurately.
I also chose to use the phrase “correct me if I’m wrong” because I know that when communicating over the internet, one’s words can sound very stern or even harsh when they’re not meant to be. So, while also in a hurry given the late hour, I thought on the whole that that particular phrase would be a good one to use in order to cover all those bases, including to communicate that I just wanted to discuss things with you as civilly as possible.