“GOD” can be briefly but accurately described as: all good things perfected”
Matt.5:48 “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” WHICH only humanity has the ability to accomplish with God’s Grace.
In a WORD, your position can be defined as “predestination” based upon one or more of the life-action you have taken. And THAT is the precise-problem with your position.
Much like your opening statement,** GOD & predestination cannot coexis**t. Such is an impossibility for the following reasons:
God not only IS “Perfect”; GOD can be nothing other than PERFECT
Hence God in an absolute sense cannot give [GIFT] humanity all of the necessary GIFTS: Mind, intellect & Freewill that enables man alone to choose salvation, and then not permit man to freely use them for the precise and exact reason they were given in the first place; namely that man [and man alone in all of the universe], could and can choose to in humility know, love, obey, & serve God in this life and thus merit his salvation in the next, the Eternal Life.
So it is it because God cannot take back the gifts he freely granted to that man could choose to merit his salvation
Doing such an act would make God imperfect, and that is impossible, and deprive man of his RIGHT to choose for himself eternal hell or eternal heaven.
God gives me zero authority to judge the beliefs and paths of others. I am supposed to be discerning yes but it’s not my salvation to give, it’s Gods. So let’s say you are saved by God and are His beloved child on whom He shows favor. My disagreeing with you counts for nothing
“Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord?” Jer.35:13
“That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God.”
[Eccl. 46:12]
. “But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men.”
[Acts: 5:29]
“And we are witnesses of these things and the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to all that obey him.”[Acts: 5:32]
“Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.”
[Rom. 6:16]
“You did run well, who hath hindered you, that you should not obey the truth?”
[Gal. 5:7]
“And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation.” [Heb. 5:9]
“Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him:” [Eccl. 15:18]
Finnaly, God leads me thru prayer. He calls me first to Him and then to follow His commandments. He doesn’t give me a theology syllable
Actually dear friend God DOES
Please look up the following [here’s a user friendly site to make it easy]
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quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rsv/
I indulge myself too much in theological speculation. All I should do is work a tentative rough framework that makes sense of what I encounter in prayer. So far, I’m continuing to fall flat in that regard, but I do feel I’m getting closer with each attempt.
Good & VERY GOOD.
I’ll end where I begin. Fred. Seek God’s Truth which can ONLY BE, singular per defined issue; everything else will result in failure. And you’ll know when you have cooperated sufficiently with GODS Grace when you are able to conclude what GOD would have YOU conclude; that HIS One True Church and the ONLY True Faith rest as God intends within the RCC Magisterium.
Fred, ask yourself: WHY do YOU suppose the bible [WHICH BTW IS A CATHOLIC BOOK] exist?
This IS historically, biblically, logically provable.
You’re in my prayers,
Patrick [PJM]
