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I know I'm not.

I explained the implication your beliefs pose, which isn't an unsupported assumption, and thus I haven't used a logical fallacy. Then I'm surprised you disagree with the excerpt from Lessons on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans on predestination (#298). Which part(s) do you view as wrong?

I know different.

Your interpretation of Paul's writings on predestination implies a passivity in man in which their actions have no impact on them, because they've already been chosen by God for glory, and thus the supposed requirement of faith in Him, including obedience to Him, reparations, etc., is...

"By their fruits you shall know them." (Matt. 7:16) Maria Valtorta produced good fruit. An evil tree cannot produce good fruit (Matt. 7:18.)

Whether speaking in present or future tense, Jn. 5:24 doesn't not support the idea in question, for reasons explained.

You requested scriptural support for the idea of true Life being generated by death. I cited Jn. 5:24 because Jesus spoke of death unto life, that life being eternal life with God in Heaven, which is true Life.

Refer back to the bottom section of post #562.

The following brief extract from Maria Valtorta's Lessons on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, is a Divine explanation of predestination, given by Christ to Valtorta, in response to her own interior reflections on this perplexing subject:

You assume my use of the word "immortal," as when I say, "the soul is immortal," to also mean "eternal." God creates a soul, and thus it has a beginning, so it's not eternal like Him Who has neither a beginning nor an end. What I said goes against that interpretation.

Hence why I said, "...the words "soul" and "spirit" are used interchangeably in Gen. 2:7." I didn't say you should do anything. I merely presented what I know to be truth.

God did give man a soul according to my references, as the words "soul" and "spirit" are used interchangeably in Gen. 2:7 and Eccles. 12:7. God created man with a body and a soul. The body is mortal and the soul is immortal, and thus when the body dies the soul continues to live. Depending on...

So, the idea that true Life begins after death when one is born to the eternal life with God is in your view "new age," and thus false?

Thank you. Refer back to the middle section of post #559 regarding immortality. Then, consider Eccles. 12:7: "...and the spirit return to God, who gave it." It was the understanding of a disciple of Jesus, a woman named "Syntyche," whom He told was correct (Poem of the Man-God: Vol. III)...

God only made man in His image and likeness (Gen. 1:26) by giving a soul (Gen. 2:7), and it shows signs of the qualities characteristic of Him Who creates it. Therefore, it's intelligent, spiritual, free, immortal, like the Father Who created it. Life is generated by death, meaning our present...

Early Christian Testimonials w/ Scriptural References I. "Mary the wife of Cleophas or Alphaeus (Clopas), who was the mother of James the bishop and apostle, and of Simon and Thaddeus (Jude/Judas), and of one Joseph." (Papias of Hierapolis [c. 60–130 AD], Fragments of Papias, Frag. 10, cf. Jn...