Rating:  Summary: PLEASE, DON'T BE FOOLED BY THIS "god"! Review: Don't waste you hard earned money! This book is utter nonsense written to swindle and mislead the weak-minded.The "god" of this book is simply THE RHETORIC OF EASTERN MYSTICISM, which is ironic since that particular 'god' is an impersonal force that could not communicate with anyone. The whole concept of this book is as idiotic as saying you could have a conversation with electricity. The oxymoron of 'ABSOLUTE RELATIVISM' is strongly preached throughout the book. There is no separation of right and wrong or good and evil. THE AUTHOR EXPECTS US TO PARK OUR BRAINS IN NEUTRAL and accept that the most wicked mass murders, serial rapists, and hate breathing racists are only 'bad' because we 'think' they are bad, not because they really are evil. This 'god' would have us believe that there is no difference between a Mother Teresa and an Adolph Hitler. In an ever increasing age of moral relativism, which is a large reason for much of the current financial market woes, HELLO, it never ceases to amaze me the depths to which publishing companies will stoop to print any trash that can make a buck for them. STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK, AS IT WON'T TELL YOU A THING ABOUT THE TRUE, PERSONAL CREATOR WHO LOVES YOU!
Rating:  Summary: Unadulterated heresy Review: This series is New Agism co-opting Judeo Christian doctrine. This is not God answering questions because anyone who understands the truth of the Bible knows God would not answer many of the questions with such morally relative pablum. I warn all Christian (and non-Christian) parents to avoid this series at all costs.
Rating:  Summary: This book changed my life Review: I personally found this book very helpful in a time a great confusion. I was on my way to giving up on spirituality and God altogether, because i could not beleive that God could love me for who i wanted and chose to be. I grew up in a very strict relgious family and was taught that God didn't love homosexuals. Now that i have been able to come to terms with that beleif thanks to this book and other factors i have now been able to grow immensly spiritually.
Rating:  Summary: Conversations with (WHICH) God? Review: One thing becomes appallingly apparrent when you begin reading this tripe, and that is that the author hasn't the faintest clue as to who the God of the Holy Bible is. I speculate as to whether or not the author has ever opened the pages of Scripture to realize that God never commands us to feel Him, or use our experiences to understand Him; rather it is a continual pursuit to know Him. And we begin to know Him through the WORDS of Scripture. This book falls right into the abysmal decadence of such other titles as "God Chaser's" (another book destined to reduce God to a fabrication of our feelings). If you are a Christian or someone who seeks God, stay away from this bbok and others like it and get back to the original word of God...The Holy Bible! sam
Rating:  Summary: Complete Garbage Review: Let me summarize Mr. Walsch's entire moral belief system in one sentence: "there are absolutely no absolutes" Obviously, such a statment violates the fundamental philosophical law of non-contradiction, therefore, you can say with 100% certainty that Neale is wrong. That this guy would have the audacity to say there is no such thing as right and wrong and that fully grown adults actually belive something so rediculuous after 9/11. Teenagers at Columbine blowing away innocent children and Mr Walsch has the gall to say "there is no forgiveness, because there is nothing to forgive" (Conversations with God for Teenagers) and that "you are perfect". What kind of twisted thinking goes on inside someone's head to turn a blind eye to evil. There is so much pain, suffering, greed, malice, hate in this world and here you have a guy saying that the entire concept of forgiveness is completely fabricated by humans (God does not forgive, according to Mr Walsch because all people, including Osama bin Laden, are perfect and righteouss in His eyes.) What we have here is a symptom to a larger problem. Fully grown adults who need to ease their guilty conscience enjoy the tingles of hearing someone tell them "you are PERFECT" and fall victim to this pseudo-intellectual jibberish and slap the word "inspirational" on a gargantuan heap of [junk]. The best use for the pages of this book would be toilet paper...
Rating:  Summary: This book is an abomination. Review: With the squishy, feel-good title, this book may accidentally end up on the shelves of many people who would never buy it for themselves when their friends buy it for them, knowing they are "religious." There is a version for everyone on your gift list - from young children or teens who are too unaware of the true nature of G-d to understand that they are being manipulated, to any adult, male or female, who wishes to see in print what they hope to be true: that G-d doesn't think anything is sin, and that the highest measure of whether anything is right is whether it is right for you. This book will confirm many in this error, and confuse many others who thought they knew what they believed. It is NOT recommended for people of faith. Any faith. This book is particularly offensive to believers in the Bible, with assertions such as G-d "does not forgive anyone" or that a person is a lesbian "for the same reason you are right-handed". But it should curl the hair of anyone who is a sincere adherent of any religion that teaches that we are accountable to G-d (or even a group of gods) in any way, that there is good and evil, that sin has consequences. Virtually every answer given to the serious questions asked is a gross misrepresentation of Who G-d really is. Even people who disagree strongly on what G-d is like will agree that He is not the entity portrayed in this book. I believe that G-d still speaks to men, but I do not believe that He is speaking these things that contradict everything that is in the Bible, which reasonable people have viewed as His Word for more than 5,000 years.
Rating:  Summary: Walsch's political soapbox Review: I find it difficult to believe that this book is anything more than Walsh taking advantage of gullible readers to preach his political views about global issues. I agree with Walsh at times, though often his extreme liberal views make me cringe. He talks about important issues, issues that I think all Americans should be aware of, however I think there are better books out there that discuss these issues in a much more objective (though nothing is ever entirely objective) and informed manner. If I ever would have believed that this phenom was for real, that possibility was blown out of the water when Walsh turned his book trilogy into a money making franchise that includes CD's, journals, companion books, a book for teens, and countless other pieces of merchandise. Anyone looking for a serious read in metaphysics ought to look elsewhere.
Rating:  Summary: Was he really talking to God? Review: I grew up in a very fundamentalist family. I had grown up with a fear of God the father and a dependence on Jesus Christ. Still I wasn't happy in my sprituality even though I prayed everyday. I wasn't happy with my life and wasn't thrilled with where I was in so many ways. There are several things in the bible that seem to contradict what Walsh has said. I do find that troubling because its against what I've been taught. For example the state of the dead. I have been taught that the dead know nothing until the reserection, yet even with in the bible that is not consistently represented. God said he was the God of the living not the dead. He said that He was the God of Abraham and Isaac in the present tense when they in the conventional sense of time were long dead. I had long ago begin to worry at the concept of time. Any pilot will tell you that time is not the constant we often preceive it to be and Einstein radically changed our concept of time more appropriately labling it as space-time and not a constant at all but relative to each observer. (See a Brief History of Time(either the movie about Stephen Hawkins-- or the book by Stephen Hawkins) Starting from that point some of the contradictions in the Bible become much closer to resolution. And to be fair to Walshe his "God" does not demand that you accept anything you read as gospel. He only ask you to try implementing it in your own life and seeing what the results are. The other thing that people who are condeming the book in the name of the bible should know is that what we now call the bible was compiled over thousands of years in the case of the old testament and, the events of the new testament were recorded by people at least 400 years after the death of Christ. Stories were passed down from mouth to mouth by believers for hundreds of years before they were actually written down. Anyone who has ever done the whisper something in the ear of a circle of guest at a party knows that what was said originally is invariably changed by the time it hits the end of a circle of people. In all cases the bible was not written directly by God but was inspired by God using the talents and shortcomings of the bible authors. Every thing they wrote was filtered by their perceptions of the world they lived in. Paul acknowleged this when he said our understanding was as though we were looking though a clouded mirror or glass. If you are looking for an exact correlation between the bible and Walshes book you will not find it. If you know yourself to be a person that does not question authority and prefers to be told what is what and your world view and sense of safety is predicated on that world view then you will NOT profit from this book. Also if you are a person that uses the bible to impose your world view on other people( and that is not meant to be seen as reproach to people who feel that this is important) you will by definition hate this book. The book is about individual responsibility rather then blind acceptance of another's authority. I realize that is a very frightening concept for a lot of people. If you are frightened by that then now is not the time for you to read this book. Its totally possible that at some point in your life in what we perceive as the future you will come to remember these words and you will be ready then to read the book. But if you are a person for whom the strictures of religion have become less filling for the thirst of your soul, then this book will give you new wellsprings to consider. Instead of conveying authority through historical figures it invites you to begin a dialog with God personally. The book challenges you to consider yourself worthy of that dialog and that God considers you worthy enough, holy enough to talk to you personally. I'm not convinced yet of everything Walsh said but I am actively engaged now in experimenting with living what he has suggested and I know that I have been irrevokably changed by reading the books. I no longer accept that Fear should be the motivation behind my choices in life. If you are happy with the state of your spiritual life then there is no need to read the books .... But if on the other hand you have been turned off of Christanity because you see the hypocrisy of people who call themselves christians,or people who ask you to abandon your own reason in the name of faith , or if you are a life long Christian who yearns to find not just peace but joy in your life I urge you to consider reading "Conversations with God". The book will not of itself tell you an exact formula for that joy in your life. You will have to work harder then you have ever worked but the work will be fascinating and interesting. It will be scary but exhilarating at the same time. I am amazed at the coincidences and connections that have been made including what led me to the book in the first place.
Rating:  Summary: good setup for Will Shad's books Review: Another reviewer said how this book was good for its time, but has been surpassed by 'The Truth:Will Shad's conversations with god', and 'the whole truth: will shad's continuing conversations with god'. I agree, because while Walsch's books are interesting, they deal with too much new age babble that anyone can logically disprove. Shad's books combine many of Wlasch's ideas in a more logical and entertaining manner. I still reccommend this series maybe as a setup for Shad's books.
Rating:  Summary: Let Synchronicity be your Guide Review: One of the things I have notice about divinely inspired information is an extraordinary command of the language, and an ability to say a great deal with few words. You will find that within this book. You know... there are no accidents... It is not an accident that you are reading these words. It may have different meaning relative to you, but it is no accident. There is no doubt in my mind that FWG is from a divine source. And even if it is not, I don't care... I'll take brilliance and genius wherever I can get it. There may be those of you who doubt whether these could actually be the words of God, and I have no quarrel with that. A valuable addage is "Know a tree by it's fruits" And the fruits of this book are Love, and Understanding, and Happines, and Connection... And that's good enough for me. If you only read one book this year, this is the one. --Frank Boyd
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