So how do you decide that Maria Valtorta's work is true, and inspired by God Himself? As I said before, there have been many people down the centuries who have claimed to be "filling in the gaps" in Scripture. An example is the so-called "Infancy Gospels", purporting to provide us with details of the early life of Jesus. The bible is God's word; I'll stick with that.
I'm not suggesting that people should stop reading Scripture, but rather trying to help Christians see that our God is a
living, loving, and interactive Being, Whose thoughts, words, and love aren't confined between the covers of any
one book, just as ours aren't, and we are lesser beings.
Jesus taught how to distinguish between the true and false spokespersons of His, did He not? He will make known who His true spokespersons are, just as He's always done, and as He did with Maria Valtorta. The proofs in support of Maria Valtorta's writings having a supernatural origin can be found in
A Summa and Encyclopedia to Maria Valtorta’s Extraordinary Work.
But Behold did not claim that all of God's thoughts and words are in the bible, but that (as I understand it) all the thoughts and words He wished to communicate to mankind are.
I never said that Behold claimed that. And, it's not written in Scripture that all the words God wishes to communicate to humankind are in
The Bible.
On February 3rd, 1944, Jesus said, “Do you know, Mary [Maria Valtorta], what you are doing? Or rather, what I am doing, in showing you the Gospel? Making a stronger attempt to bring men to Me. You yearned for it with your fervent prayers. I will no longer confine Myself to words. They tire men and detach them. It is a fault, but it is so. I will have recourse to visions, also of My Gospel, and I will explain them to make them more attractive and clear. I give you the comfort of seeing them. I give everybody the possibility of wishing to know Me. And if it is of no avail, and like cruel children they should throw away the gift without understanding its value, you will be left with My present, and they with My indignation. I shall be able once again to repeat the old reproach: "We played for you and you would not dance; we sang dirges and you would not weep." But it does not matter. Let them, the inconvertible ones, heap burning coals on their heads and let us turn to the little sheep seeking to become acquainted with their Shepherd. It is I, and you are the staff leading them to Me.
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On April 28th, 1947, Jesus said, "The [seven] reasons that have induced Me to enlighten and dictate episodes and words of Mine to little John [Maria Valtorta’s nickname] are, in addition to the joy of communicating an exact knowledge of Me to this loving victim-soul, manifold. But the moving spirit of all of them is My love for the Church, both teaching and militant, and My desire to help souls in their ascent towards perfection. The knowledge of Me helps to ascend. My Word is Life.
[...] Further: if you object that the revelation was closed with the last Apostle, and there was nothing further to add, because the same Apostle says in Revelation: "If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him every plague mentioned in the book" (22:18) and that can be understood for all the Revelation, the last completion of which is the Revelation by John, I reply to you that with this work no addition was made to revelation, but only the gaps, brought about by natural causes and by supernatural will, were filled in.
And if I wanted to take pleasure in restoring the picture of My Divine Charity as a restorer of mosaics does replacing the tesserae damaged or missing, reinstating the mosaic in its complete beauty, and I have decided to do it in this century in which mankind is hurling itself towards the Abyss of darkness and horror, can you forbid Me from doing so? Can you perhaps say that you do not need it, you whose spirits are dull, weak, deaf to lights, voices and invitations from Above?
You ought really to bless Me for increasing with new lights the light that you have and that is no longer sufficient for you to "see" your Savior. To see the Way, the Truth and the Life, and feel that spiritual emotion of the just of My time rise in you, attaining through this knowledge a renewal of your spirits in love, that would be your salvation, because it is an ascent towards perfection. I do not say you are "dead", but sleeping, drowsy. Like plants during their winter sleep. The divine Sun gives you its refulgence. Awake and bless the Sun that gives you itself, receive it with joy that It may warm you, from the surface to deep inside you, it may rouse you and cover you with flowers and fruits.
Rise. Come to My Gift”.
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On May 8th, 1948, Jesus said, "The canonical Gospel is essential for believing and for saving oneself; but it is not a complete knowledge of Me."
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On February 22nd, 1949, Jesus said, "I was already sufficiently described in the Gospels, the minimum necessary for the salvation of hearts."
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