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Summary: A Great Book!
Review: Neale Donald Walsch did a fantastic job with Book 1. The message is so powerful. It makes sense and everything fits together. I go to a Catholic High School and have been taught since I was a baby about God and after I read this book, I believe that I can never go back to my former beliefs.
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Summary: ok, but has since been bettered by other books
Review: This book was original and controversial when it first came out, and I read it about five years ago. I liked it, but there seemed to be many contraditcions it in, the main one being: if we are all potential 'masters', and can control reality any way we choose, what if two 'masters' attempted to bring two contradictory events into being? I have since bought Will Shad's 2 excellent books of his own conversations with God, and they explained many of these contradictions in a better way. His books are in fact superior to Walsch's, and can be called the 'next generation' in the genre.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: This book was absolutely incredible. It has answered most of the questions I had been having on my own about Christianity. As a teen, I struggled with my faith because I felt there were inconsistancies. As a college student involved in the sciences, I had been seqarching for what I believe. This included thought about issues such as the Big Bang and Evolution. The answers I came up with were the same that this book 'revealed'. I reccomend reading it for anyone searching for faith, anyone who has ever felt dissolutioned with religion, who wants to think for themself.As far as heresy, well, I don't know. It would be very easy to write this book off as "work of the devil" because some of the ideas within do seem like heresy. This is something I am still not sure on. However, I know that the message it contains is not one of hatred. If you read it and think it is too out there to believe, think about this: If satan really wrote this, would he be encouraging us to love one another? Look at the things in the book that feel right before you look at those that feel wrong. If something is hard to believe as something God would say, look at the things that do sound like the loving, caring God that the Christian faith would have us believe. The argument that God has about the existance of hell, for example. Look at the logic behind it, and ask which sounds like the truth - what God says, or what your human teachers have told you.
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Summary: Conversations with God's enemy...
Review: Readers beware. Things are NOT always what they appear to be and "Conversations with God" is NOT what it seems to be. Inside and out, this book is very deceiving. Its white cover, the peaceful picture, and specially its name lead anyone to believe that this book is about God. But it is not. In its pages, words from the Bible mixed with the writer's goal to alienate the reader from God become pure blasphemy. I found great darkness in this book. With his tactics, the author tries to lure people away from God and if not careful, you won't even know it. Be strong! "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes" (Eph 6:11-NIV). In a bookstore, this book is like a goat among the sheep. Like others, I also felt that it was my duty to warn you that this book is NOT inspired by God NOR the Spirit of God. Evidently, it was NOT God with whom the writer conversed. The author of CWG uses the name of God to deceit the children of God. He uses God's name to get to you and he is NOT honest about it. The Bible says, "Watch out that no one deceives you" (Matt 24: 4 - NIV). From the very first pages and in a very clever way, the writer prepares the soil to sow what he will want to reap later. He does it by trying to disarm the reader first. He asks you to forget all that your rabbi, pastor, priest, etc., have taught you up until now. He asks you to forget all that you have been "conditioned" to believe. That idea may seem appealing to many of us but once you forget all that you have learned about God, the author is ready to insert into your mind, practically anything he wants. Be alert! And, "take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one" (Eph 6:16 - NIV). As the writer goes on, he makes God look small in size, power, brains, inarticulate, and even unable to answer petty questions. I mean, the God who created the Sun, the stars, the trees, the flowers, every single and the billions of cells in your body (according to the writer), unable to answer one of his little questions! Then, of course, he makes himself look bigger and powerful; like a god. This man seems to know what it takes to begin a new religion; a religion of which he surely wants to be the god. I believe that at the very moment that we depart from God, we begin to suffer. Please don't take your eyes away from God so that God may not one day take His eyes away from you. God loves you. Bring all your burdens to Him. Do as Jesus did, he always went to God first, even prior to his crucifixion. Follow his steps. Jesus is the way. And don't forget Kind David's words: "Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever" (Psalm 23:6 - NIV). Note: For the ones who need proofs, the author's issue, "evil doesn't exist" could be easily solved if we ask people who have endured great suffering (e.g. war) if they believe that evil exists. It is not fair for us, happy spenders who think mostly of personal happiness, to say that evil doesn't exist. We could ask, for example, any Jew who lived and suffered persecution during the Holocaust (when Hitler savagely persecuted God's chosen people), if they believe that evil exists. If these Jews believe that evil exists, then it does but if they believe that evil doesn't exist, then it doesn't.
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Summary: On the right track
Review: O.k., let me put it straight for all the Christians who put down this book:
You cannot say that the 'god' in this book is wrong and that your 'god' is right, simply because you have no real proof.And if you try to prove so logically, then his God would if fact be more reasonable.
You cannot say that something is right simply because it is written in the bible, because there is no real proof that the bible is god's word, other than other people telling you that it is. You don't even have proof that Jesus himself was not really the devil, other than him saying so.
Any loving God that exists cannot and will not punish, judge, or condemn us for believing in one faith over another, simply because we CANNOT be sure if what we believe is right or not. We cannot be totally sure, so no loving God would send us to hell for choosing 'wrong'.
A judgmental and jealous and wrathful God would additionally be a 'sinful God, since these attributes are sinful, and therefore cannot be also 'without sin', as Christians claim he is.
Christianity is faulty, and i dare any Christian to argue otherwise. I have in fact written similiar books ; 'The Truth: Will Shad's Conversations With God' , and 'The Whole Truth: Will Shad's Continuing Conversations With God', and I do not agree with Neale on all points, but he is definitely on the right track....
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Summary: Open your Heart, not your mind.....
Review: Yes, I know that life is not easy, we have so many problems and lots of daily task to acomplish, We want answers now!!,we want solutions and we need them desperatly, we are so thirsty for them and suddenly it appears this intelligent guy (Nale Walsh) telling you exactly what you needed to hear, at the precise moment telling you lot's of stupid things like GOD says that if someone one jumps out from a building nothing will happen to him if he has lots of faith, I mean, not even Jesus threw himself from a Mountain when satan told him: " IF YOU'RE THE SON OF GOD THROW YOURSELF DOWN FROM HERE, BECAUSE IT IS WRITTREN THAT THE ANGELS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE SON OF GOD SO THAT HE NEVER STUMBLE" and Jesus answers: " IT IS ALSO WRITTEN, YOU WILL NOT TEMPT YOUR GOD". And this book also says lots of other NEW AGE stuff like Reencarnation exists,etc.. But let me tell you this, the anwers have been here with us from a long time ago, and still every day it follows us daily hoping that one day we will open our HEARTS to them, not our MIND. If you try to look for answers with your MIND, you simply will never find them, the only thing you will find is hundredths of different theorys and that's what satan wants, to confuse more and more every time,why, because we were designed to prosper by love, to get along with others by love, understand people by love. Unfortunately many of us still have a wrong impression of God, we think of a punishing God instead of a superloving, misericordial God that wants to stablish a very close relationship with us. But we think that if we follow his path, all the " fun " we have will fade away, and you know what,it's all the opposite, it's were all the fun begins. Yes, sometimes it's not easy being a catholic, because there is another one who wants to see us fall, he doesn't want you to taste the authentic hapiness, He was so jeallous and angry when we were created, that he decided to confront his creator. So it's been said that if we want to be born again and taste the light, we have to deny ourselves (getting rid of sin, become pure again, repent, penence) and carry our cross, and instead of carrying ONE cross which Jesus help us carry it if we ask him, we end up carrying ten bigger and heavier crosses, and we blame Him. By letting Jeus into our lives, our cross (life problems, following his doctrines)doesn't weight at all, you will see a tremendous positive change.
Remember Our father words: " Trust your Lord with all your HEART, and not with your own INTELLIGENCE, Recognize him in all your paths, and He will fill your HEART." Proverbs 3.5-6
" My son pay attention and be WISE, maintain your HEART, in the correct path" Proverbs 23.15
" Beloved sons, apart yourself from the IDOLS." 1 John 5.21
" Do not love the world and anything in it. If someone loves the world, he doesn't posses the fathers love." 1 John 2.15
" I AM the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 8.12 " Beware of false prophets which are feroucious wolfs disguise as lambs " Please don't believe in any of this NEW AGE books that instead of bringing you closer to God, it does the opposite. There are lots of good books and testimonies about convertions. And while you go thru this beautifull journey of knowing our lord, don't reason with your mind, study him with your HEART, be OPEN HEARTED, NOT OPEN MINDED. May Jesus bless you... A friend.
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Summary: books also speaks to the godless
Review: Seems that many of the reviews are from Christians in one form or another. I'm an atheist, though raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. My set of beliefs (as limited as they are) contradict other reviewers', but at least you'll have another viewpoint to consider. I enjoyed Book One because it vindicated a lot of what I thought about--there is no judging of our actions by some greater entity, each of us is a god, and when we die our souls (however we define it) all do the same thing regardless of how our life was led. Bad stuff derives from fear and good stuff derives from Truth, Love, and Joy. These ideas all makes sense to me, and Walsch presents them in easy-to-understand language, even though I did read the book slowly to better capture the thoughts. Lots of Walsch's ideas are Gaia theory--(read the last book in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series--he comes to the same conclusions). Reminds me, too, of The Force from Star Wars, which frankly doesn't sound too goofy anymore. I especially like Walsch's part about Joy--seems that many folks forget about physical and emotional pleasure balancing with their sense of purpose (which Walsch calls our ability/desire/need to create). Granted, I think much of the author's premise is new-age mullarky, but some of his lessons were good: for example, don't say you WANT something, such as, I want to go to Paris, have money, be fit...because then you just continue to WANT it. Half the battle to becoming better is phrasing ideas better and Walsch stresses that. The first half of Book One is more compelling (because it's about universal truths) than the second half, when Walsch starts to whine about his life and "God's" responses are directed to his problems (not mine). But many folks have Walsch's problems, so you might have a bigger connect than I did. Definitely worth reading to glean the good stuff that works for you...it's a nice reminder than we're okay after all.
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Summary: Powerful
Review: I have read all three of Walsch's "Conversation with God" books but found book one to be the most powerful. Nearly every page has some truth underlined. Reading this book, for me, was like reading a truth I had always known but momentarily forgotten. I have read book one three times now and I consider it a valuable lesson for living. God Bless You, Neale Donald Walsch.
Beverly J Scott author of Righteous Revenge
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Summary: Dangerous and wrong
Review: I saw the power of the seductive untruths in this book destroy a woman I loved. I pray that no more of you succumb. This book is New Age nonsense inspired by a mishmash of eastern mysticism and godless universalism. It is inspired, I'll admit. Inspired by the thief that wants only to kill, to steal and destroy. You will only know the peace of God's will working through your life when you accept the truth that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life and that not even one person comes to know or have a conversation with God but through Him. And to as many as believe, He offers the right and power to become the children of, not just conversant with, God. Get a good modern translation of the Bible if you want to know about God. Repent of your sins and turn your life over to Him if you want to know Him personally. He can't wait and there's nothing you've ever done that will disqualify you from His love.
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Summary: Perception not equals universal appeal
Review: After reading some other reviews, I have to clarify my own review. I mentioned some confusion regarding the reading of the three books. This confusion is because quite a bit of the dialogue was left unexplained or "filtered" in such a way as to be uncomfortable to my way of thinking ie perception. I hope that people can use this material for good; to make him or herself what they truly desire to be. However, the idea that this has led to a following and foundation to extend this information to others, borders on doctrinization. I abhore all ideas that become principles because they usually stem from a limited number of people, or are FILTERED from a limited perception. Mr. Walsch should be commended for his efforts, but to treat them with anything other than mild appreciation would be tantamount to surrendering my principles for anothers. I simply won't do this. Hence the phrase: While opinions are always valid, They are not always appropiate. (furthermore: they might only be important to the person expressing them.) So I do not expect my opinion to be any more valid or appropiate than yours. : )
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