I explained the implication your beliefs pose, which isn't an unsupported assumption, and thus I haven't used a logical fallacy.
Alright, looks like there was a misunderstanding on my part. I apologize.
Allow me to readdress your post:
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 unnecessary.
Taking a look at this with the above in mind, this is still incorrect. Unless I'm mistaken (it is possible):
YOUR position, not mine, claims that a specific individual is chosen, predestined, by God for glory.
YOUR position is that obedience to God is necessary for salvation.
No?
MY position is that God saves those who humble themselves and recognize that they CANNOT save themselves through any work of their own (obedience), and that their life is required for reparations (and thus nothing else is of enough value that they can provide for reparation between them and God.
Thus, the "implication" you have provided isn't based on my position, it's based on yours.
MY position is that the only thing that man can do in order to be saved is to, as Paul says:
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” - Romans 10:9-13
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans10:9-13&version=NKJV
And:
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,not of works, lest anyone should boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians2:8-9&version=NKJV
Then I'm surprised you disagree with the excerpt from Lessons on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans on predestination (#298).
You shouldn't be.
Which part(s) do you view as wrong?
These parts:
All men without exception are predestined to grace, since [Christ] died for all.
Christ died for all, yes, but that doesn't mean "all without exception" will be graced out.
Those who do not accept Christ as their savior before they die do not get a second chance.
Those who remain faithful—at least to the natural law of the Good—are predestined to glory.
Man cannot earn his way to heaven, not even his faith in God merits salvation, let alone being faithful to some law, which man cannot keep anyways without violating it.
Thus at the end of the ages, each one who has lived as a just man, will have his reward.
Again, living "as a just man" will not earn you anything, let alone salvation, since, as Paul said:
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, - Romans 3:23
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans3:23&version=NKJV
And:
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. - Romans 7:7-12
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans7:7-12&version=NKJV
God knows from eternity those who are destined for glory before they are born into life—that is, "predestined".
No, He doesn't. There is no verse that says this.
Also, life begins at conception, not at birth. God can know someone before they are born, and the Bible says He does, but it NEVER says that He knows them before they exist.
There are those who are predestined, certainly.
Groups are predestined, not specific individuals.
And God knows them before time [even] exists
God is not outside of time.
kgov.com
[And God knows them before time [even] exists] for them.
Scripture doesn't say this. Again, it says He knows people before they are born, not before they exist.
God gives them what He gives to all. But they use the gifts of God with justice, and hence they win the future and eternal glory by their [own] free will.
Once again: MAN CANNOT EARN HIS SALVATION. He cannot obtain "eternal glory" by working for it.
And our (read: Christians') glory is in Christ.
God knows that they will reach this eternal glory.
No, He doesn't, because no man can obtain eternal glory on his own.
God knows. He rejoices in anticipation to know that this creature will reach glory; just as He suffers in anticipation to know that this other creature will, voluntarily, reach damnation.
God does not know the final destination of anyone until they either die in their rejection of him, or put their faith in Him.
For where there's life, there's hope: Even a sinner laying on his death bead can repent and turn to Christ just before he passes.
Those who are already dead are either in hell or heaven based on their rejection or acceptance, respectively, of Him while they were yet living.
But in no way does He intervene to force the free choice of any creature so that it may arrive where God wants all to arrive: in Heaven.
True, God does not force free creatures to choose Him, but those who do not will not end up in heaven, but the lake of fire.
Certainly the creature's correspondence with Divine help increases its capacity to will. Because God all the more pours Himself out, as a man loves Him in truth: that is, with a charity of actions, and not [just] of words.
This sounds like new-age gobbledygook.
And again: certainly, the more a man lives as a just man, the more God also communicates with and manifests Himself to him:
Only if the man has repented towards God and put his faith in Him.
Otherwise:
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. - Isaiah 64:6
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah64:6&version=NKJV
an anticipation of that knowledge of God which is the bliss of the saints in Heaven; and from this knowledge comes an increase of the capacity to want [will] to be perfect. But again and always, man is free with his will, and, if after having already reached perfection, one disavows the good he has practiced up till then, and sells himself to the Evil One: God would leave him free to do it. There would be no merit if there were coercion.
To conclude: God knows—from eternity—those who are the future eternal inhabitants of Heaven.
No, He doesn't.
But man, with his free will, must want [will] to reach Heaven
Desire won't get one to heaven.
by using well the supernatural helps which the Eternal Father gives to each of His creatures.
Man cannot earn his way to heaven.
And this [must he do] even to his last breath
It doesn't matter how hard a man tries, he cannot do enough good works to earn his way to heaven.
whatever the extraordinary gifts he has received,
Are meaningless without trusting in Christ for salvation.
and [whatever] the degrees of perfection he has reached.
As Isaiah said:
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away. - Isaiah 64:6
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah64:6&version=NKJV
Remember: no one has ever truly arrived, until his "walk" is finished.
Wrong.
No one CAN arrive at perfection.
That's why we must place our trust in Christ, because IN HIM we are complete, not because we are or can become perfect, but because HE
IS perfect.
For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. - Colossians 2:9-10
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians2:9-10&version=NKJV
That is, no one is sure of having merited glory, until his time has ended, and immortality has begun.
False.
One can be sure of his salvation, because Christ surely completed His work on the Cross, and our faith is in Him, not in our own doings.
Attributing to Christ what He did not say is blasphemy. This is why I reject this excerpt as "a Divine explanation of predestination, given by Christ to Valtorta." We have Christ's words in the Bible. He did not say any of what you quoted from Valtorta. You would benefit from reading the verse just prior to Colossians 2:9-10, above, which reads thusly:
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. - Colossians 2:8
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians2:8&version=NKJV
And so your "knowing" that you're not means you're not?
Not even Jesus claimed that His own testimony was valid on it's own. He held to His own standard of "two or three witnesses establishes a matter." Just because you say "I know I'm not wrong" doesn't mean you aren't, especially when others are telling you otherwise.
