So, you wrote down words given to you by the Holy Spirit, yet you refuse to even read the writings of others who claim to have received diction from Jesus, etc, like Maria Valtorta, because "the deception factor is too strong," and you "do not want to be deceived by them," and "it is better to play it safe and stay with the Holy Bible."
Then you reference the Bereans, who are held up as an example for Christians to be open to receiving the Word of God, and doing their own research, and verifying it against Scripture.
I understand you are being hypocritical, but am confused about how you think your reactions make sense towards Maria Valtorta vs. your writings. Additionally, how can you attack me for being too easily deceived because I am willing to read and research something, while also saying to act as the Bereans who read and research...
No, I am saying that because you are open to Maria Valtorta, you should be open to my writings.
If you are not open to my writings, why would you be open to the writings of this woman?
I will take the same approach to this extrabiblical information that you are setting forth as I do to the book of mormon or the writings of the gnostics...
Which, I consider, present a different Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel than the biblical one (see 2 Corinthians 11:3-4).
I do not need to look into and read any of the above documents in order to attempt to discern that they are not of the Lord.
It is already clear to me that they are not of the Lord....so why would I read any of them except to pick them apart and to show how they are in disregard to the faithful interpretations of holy scripture?
But the way to determine whether money is counterfeit is not to study counterfeit money...it is to handle real money all the day long.
So, I will stick with my Bible, thank you very much; until I become so familiar with it that I can determine whether a doctrinal statement is true or a lie just by looking at it or by getting a feel for it.
This thing by Maria Vallorta feels to me to be too much like gnostic writings for me to put any stock in it.
Don't worry...my eternity doesn't hinge on whether or not I accept the writings of Maria Vallorta...
While it does hinge on my accepting the writings of holy scripture as they are presented to me in the closed canon of holy scripture.
btw, there is no Berean element to what you have presented...for she attributes her statements to Jesus Himself.
So then, either they are the words of Jesus and must be unequivocally accepted; or else they are not and are to be categorically rejected. There is no middle ground. And therefore, if you find any of her words in the name of Jesus to be untrue or not according to holy scripture, you must therefore reject all of her writings as untrue. Because if it is not Jesus that is speaking, the words spoken are spoken by a deceiver and must be rejected as the words of a deceiver. But if it is Jesus, then it must all be accepted without question.
I prefer not to make myself accountable to something new that Jesus might have said if there is even a slight chance that it is not of Jesus Christ. Because if it is not of Jesus Christ, but I consider the writings to be of Him, then I will be more easily deceived by the writings in question. Because I will feel some kind of obligation to believe His words even though they are not His words.