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Summary: WHAT IS HELL? WOW! ! WOW!! WOW!! AND WOW!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is great!!! Anyone's agree??? If you do, you need to spread the good news too about this inspiring a mind opening A very illuminating book. THINK FOR YOURSELF AS I CALL IT. Read the passage below from the book itself. WHAT IS HELL??
Hell is the experience of the worst possible outcome of your choices, decisions, and creations. Hell is the PAIN YOU SUFFER THROUGH WRONG THINKING. Hell is also the OPPOSITE of JOY. It is UNFULFILLMENT. It is knowing Who and what You Are, and failing to experience that. IT IS BEING LESS. That is hell, and there is none greater for your soul. But hell does not exist as this you have fantasized, where you burn in some everlasting fire. There is no such experience after death as you have constructed in your fear based-theologies. You may do as you wish without fear of retribution. It may serve you, HOWEVER TO BE AWARE OF CONSEQUENCES. Consequenses are NATURAL OUTCOMES. They are that which occurs, quite PREDICTABLY, as a consequence of what has occurred. But you are your own rule-maker. YOU SET THE GUIDELINES. And you DECIDE HOW WELL YOU HAVE DONE. No one else will judge you ever for why, and how, could God judge God's own creation and call it bad? The whole point of the process was for you to discover yourself, create your SELF as you truly are-and as you truly wish to be. Yet you could not be that unless you also had a choice to be something else.
There is no hell, but there is an experience of the soul so UNHAPPY, so INCOMPLETE, so LESS than WHOLE, so SEPARATED from GOD'S greatest JOY, that to your SOUL this would be HELL. GREAT PASSAGE NEIL!!! WOW!! this is so Amazing!! Thank you NEIL. This is the God I want to fall in love over and over again and again!!!!
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Summary: Islamic point of view
Review: "Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: 'This is from God,' to traffic with it for a miserable price! Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby" (Quran 2-79). I've been to one of his seminar. and felt something is wrong. even though some of his ideas make sense which agree with the Islamic faith, like God doesn't need us, based on the Islamic faith we need God and we survive with every word that comes from him. On the other hand his idea that devil does not exist, not everybody will agree with him, I lived for 25 years in war and I know what devil means. I can see his real agenda this book is Candy mixed with poison.
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Summary: Beautiful, creative, & powerful!
Review: If you are seeking a profound relationship with God, and are open to being mentally and spiritually challenged, this book will resonate with your soul.........If you are caught up in religious dogma, a belief in one "right" way, or have a vision of God as separate, commanding, and vengeful, you will struggle with each page........But, hopefully, in your struggle, you will find growth, awareness, and new feelings of tolerance, compassion, connection, and Love.........The words, concepts, and ideas presented significantly altered my life.........Remember, miracles come with a shift in perception.............
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Summary: They Were Not Conversations With God
Review: Walsch's alleged "conversations with God" were NOT conversations with God. To find out why, see www.theywerenotconversationswithgod.com.
[This book gets one star only because there is no option for zero stars!]
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Summary: CONVERSATIONS WITH....himself
Review: It's obvious that Walsch had a very specific target audience in mind when he wrote this book. He's clearly going after those folks who were raised as Christians in childhood, but who then abandoned their faith in their teenage years. Sadly, these people often never revisit the faith of their childhood with the advantage of an older, more mature mind. If, as adults, they would take the time to read such classics as C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" or G.K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" or "The Everlasting Man", their minds would be opened up to a true and mature understanding of the faith that they never really knew. Instead, these folks walk around clinging to their childish stereotypes of Christianity, and continue to reject traditional Christianity because it seems to them to be (not surprisingly) so childish. Walsch knows this audience well, and he uses their ignorance of true Christianity to his own advantage. One of the more annoying tactics Walsch employs in his book is using true Christian doctrine (pretending that they're his own ideas) to debunk his reader's childish, false notions of Christianity. The uninformed reader recognizes the Christian ideas as ringing true (not knowing that they are, in fact, Christian ideas), and then assumes that these ideas are brand new ideas coming from Walsch's "god". The ignorant reader then wrongly thinks that traditional Christianity has been bested. For example: Walsch claims that Christianity teaches that God doesn't want us to have free will. But it doesn't! He claims that Christianity teaches that God's love is conditional. But it doesn't! He claims that Christianity teaches that sex is bad. But it doesn't! Walsch is doing battle with foes that don't exist - and the reason they don't exist is that Christianity Herself vanquished these heretical ideas eons ago. Now Walsch wants to take credit for the victory. A particularly eyebrow raising example of this bizarre shell game is Walsch's embracing of the concept of a Trinitarian God. Walsch repeatedly lumps traditional Christianity together with all other religions as being equally "in the dark" about the true nature of God. But he then embraces the uniquely Christian idea of God being a Trinity. Now, all the other religions of the world (Mohamedism, Judaism, Mormonism etc.) believe that the Trinitarian notion of God is an absolute blasphemy. Only traditional Christianity proclaims the Triune God. But Walsch bashes traditional Christianity for not understanding God , and then informs us that the true nature of God is (...you guessed it) Trinitarian. He triumphantly claims this central, uniquely Christian doctrine as his own while he spits in its author's eye. Go figure. The contradictions in this book are frequent and glaring. For example: Wlasch's "god" repeatedly talks about Jesus in the highest and most glowing of terms, as having achieved all the "understanding" that his "god" would have us achieve. He then, however, declares to us that there is no hell, no sin, no devil and no damnation. Oh really. How does Walsch square that with that fact that Jesus incessantly talks about hell, sin, the devil and damnation throughout the entirety of the Gospels? In fact, Jesus repeatedly declares that he, personally, will judge us for our sins at the end of time. Walsch, little buddy, you can't have it both ways. Throughout all this, of course, Walsh throws into the mix his own grab bag of predicable self serving doctrines for which New Agers are renowned (...you know, stuff like: we're all God). The unsuspecting reader will be lured in by the scattered Christian truths they find, and then assume that the rest of the book is true as well. This is how all the Christian heresies (Arianism, Gnosticism, Mohamedism, etc.) operated. A little bit a truth sprinkled as bait, followed by a banquet of falsehoods. On a lighter note, I found it very entertaining how Walsh's "god" in the beginning of the book speaks in plain, colloquial, everyday speech, but before long he starts sounding like the King James Bible - complete with Old English sentence structure. I suppose this is to give him an ever increasing tone of authority. I also got a good chuckle when I discovered that Walsch's "god" just happens to be opposed to the military-industrial complex and the destruction of the Rain Forest, and advocates free sex. Something tells me that if we pressed him, we'd find that Walsch's "god" also favors the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes.
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Summary: An opinion to take into consideration
Review: The words that come into my mind as I read the Conversations with God book three are, truth, choice and love. Some may call it blasphemy or anti-Christian, but in my opinion those would just be the words of a narrow-minded person that can not conceive the concepts put out in this book. Most reviews on this book are totally against it, and look more like a disclaimer than a personal reflection. In my opinion, if you're reading reviews before the actual book stop completely what you're doing and just read the summary. Reviewers tend to be angry Christians that want to spread their religion and contradict books opposing to theirs. I will not say that everything in the book should be taken for granted, but at least in consideration, for the reason that in a world so unstable and unpredictable like ours, everything is in the realm of possible. The answers to Neale Donald Walsch's questions were in him all the time, because he always had them deep down inside and only knew how to bring them out by knowing himself. We are told that he is conversing with God, but the true meaning of this, is that he is a part of God, like all of us, and is interrogating the part of him that he doesn't know. This part holds the answers to his questions, and why it is hard to believe is because not many have found a way to reach that part.
Some of you might think I have been lobotomized or dehumanized, but the truth is that humans use around one tenth of their mental capabilities. Imagine what the nine tenths hold? You only know ten percent of yourself, and you're able to judge that what is said in this book is untrue and ridiculous? In fact what is ridiculous is that with that mentality and confidence you'll never no more than one tenth of yourself due to all the flattery your ego receives. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to attack anybody, I'm just trying to explain to some individuals that it's because they chose to believe in one religion or set of rules that they have faith in it. No believer of a common religion has been proved to receive divine knowledge from a God, who will burn you in hell if you accumulate more bad deeds than good ones. Now, I'm not saying everything is good or bad, I'm just proving that it's merely a point of view. For some, certain actions or words are bad, and for others they don't represent anything. Life is not a school with rigid rules and laws, because if it was, choice would not be available to humans. Common religion believers will tell me that choice is available but then is judged by God according to HIS ultimate definition of fair and evil, transporting you to a either a « good » place or a « bad » one according to your choices. Well ask yourself this. What if that bad place to you was not so bad because you didn't think of your deeds as « bad » when you committed them? « Bad » is just there to symbolize actions people regret and these actions are believed to only be forgiven and forgotten after being punished by an invisible and almighty creator. Well, if that makes you feel like you hooked yourself up with a plane ticket to heaven because you regretted killing someone and felt forgiven after attending the pilgrimage then keep killing them, you'll be forgiven after your next appearance in Mecca.
Dear reader I have said too much and very little. If you didn't read as far as this point, well have fun being forgiven. On the other hand if you did open your eyes and ears for a point of view neither true nor false, than have fun reading a book which could show you more then what you might've thought. Choosing your point of view makes it so. So now step forward if you choose, and listen...re-member...and understand.
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Summary: I'd say - soliloquy, not a conversation
Review: Most of what books like this advocates is typical New Age babble.
It's always been difficult to lead one's life according to the rigors of Chritianity. Over the centuries, many people have had problems with the day-to-day difficulties of living as a saint and, as a result, there were always new sects popping up to accomodate those who had personal agendas they were not willing to forego.
The common practice among contemporary "prophets" is to take bits from various religions (speaking of which, all religions are NOT similar nor alike; they differ greatly in some important aspects - reincarnation, for instance. Some of them are not even religions, but philosophical systems) and leave out the disturbing parts in order to create a custom made (pseudo)religion, a watered-down substitute for the real thing. There were many true Christian mystics (Mysticism is the direct intuition or experience of God) over the past couple of millenia. They lived in different time, in different countries, different cultures etc, but their experience does not differ at all. All of them make a clear distinction between the good and evil and none of them relativize the virtues of the morality of the Ten Commandments.
If you read the New Testament and then the writings of the likes of St. Teresa of Avila, Julianna of Norwich, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart etc, you'll notice the SAME SPIRIT that inspired them.
I have not felt that spirit while reading this book.
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Review: ...... rates this book one star only because there is no option for ZERO STARS. Below is an excerpt from a manuscript written in rebuttal to Walsch's book and available at www.theywerenotconversationswithgod.com: In his book Conversations With God: an uncommon dialogue, Neale Donald Walsch claims that since the Spring of 1992 he has had several different conversations with God regarding a wide range of various spiritual topics. Those topics include the nature of God, the purpose of life, and whether there is any difference between 'right' and 'wrong' in this life. Walsch also claims that God instructed him to write several books on these conversations (of which Conversations With God is the first) in order to share those conversations with others. Walsch's "conversations with God", were not conversations with God. Whoever 'spoke' to Walsch (the "Speaker") was merely pretending to be God in order to deceive Walsch and those who read and believe Walsch's book. The purpose of this book is to expose the nature and extent of that deception. The Speaker could not have been God because the Speaker utters things directly contrary to truths that God has consistently revealed to people throughout history. The book records at least four overarching lies by the Speaker. These falsehoods appear as recurring themes throughout the 'answers' given by 'God' to Walsch's questions recorded in the book. The First Lie: The Devil Does Not Exist
The Speaker's first fundamental lie is that "there is no such thing as the devil." On the contrary, based on statements recorded in the Bible and testimonies of people who have experienced personal contact with the Devil, not only does the Devil exist, but his principal aim throughout history (including today) has been to destroy every individual's relationship with and trust in God. The Devil (or "Satan") attempts to accomplish this objective through a ruthless barrage of lies, earthly temptations and appeals to man's pride, much like what occurs in Walsch's book. In fact, the strong similarities between Satan's words and conduct as revealed to us in the Bible, and the Speaker's words and conduct as recorded in Walsch's book, are so compelling that it is highly probable that the Speaker is the Devil himself (or one of his representatives) pretending to be God.
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Summary: Beware of False Prophets
Review: After picking up this book one day and scanning through it, I was appalled. The things that are supposedly said by God in this book are false and very dangerous. The "god" in this book is not a just god. It pretty much says that people can do whatever they like without any consequences. This series discusses Hitler, and the "god" in the books states "Hitler did nothing "wrong." Hitler simply did what he did." The "god" in this book almost commends Hitler for killing millions, saying that "Hitler didn't hurt anyone. In a sense, he didn't inflict suffering, he ended it." What is the point then of being good or bad if there are no consequences? Another section deals with the fall of man. The "god" in this book calls what Adam and Eve did the original blessing because it allowed people to know the possibilities of good and evil. (Read the book Perelandra by C.S. Lewis for a brilliant counter argument to the above statement) This series also encourages people to pursue anything that makes them feel good; indulgence in whatever they like. One disturbing part in the series encourages married people to kiss and fondle each other in front of their children, as well as be naked in front of them. The "god" in this book even says that a married couple having sex in front of their children is a good thing. Many other disturbing things related to sex, especially the parts involving children, are stated in this series.
These are only a few examples from this series and I hope that you find them as disturbing as I do. An entire book could be written (and I hope one is) to combat the evils stated in this book. This series is basically a license to do whatever you like and very nearly does away with right and wrong. Many of the things that the "god" in this series says are outrageous and meant to deceive and lead people down the wrong path. I believe this series to be inspired by Satan (the "god" in the book says that there is no such being, which is exactly what Satan wants), and meant to deceive people by destroying the idea of sin, right and wrong, or good and evil, and giving them a license to do whatever they like. Please do not read this book; it can be tempting to believe in this book because it allows one to do whatever they like, but it is false. If you want to know the real God and truth study the Bible and find a good Christian church. I do accept that there are truths in other religions besides Christianity. Not everything in this series is totally wrong; Satan is a clever enemy and therefore puts enough truth in so that the books are convincing, though the bulk of the material is false and dangerous. Jesus warned that in the end days there would be false prophets, and I believe this author to be just that.
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Summary: A good thought provoking and heretical(?) book!
Review: Neale Donald Walsch did something few will realy do in todays world. He told people that he speaks to God directly! Blashphemy! Heresy! and a whole host of other evils. Truth, fact or fiction? Christian, Anti Christian or??? I have read a lot of the reviews people have made about this book and have read it myself. Is he promoting free love and promiscuity? NO HE ISN'T! Sometimes the only way to make a point and to get it across is to dramatize things! We all do it! Just as with the condemnation of homosexuality and other sins in certain parts of the bible, people are not taking the whole paragraph but one sentance. Do you know that the whole Paragraph in Leviticus which speaks about homosexuality is speaking about the sins of the followers of Moloch? How they practice sexual acts in rituals to their god? One word makes the whole difference in this paragraph and it is 'toevah' which means ritually unclean. Take the book as a whole and see that he is not speaking about promiscuity or other acts of wantonness. It is speaking about experience! And that in the whole of the equation, that is what it is all about! Experience is neither good nor bad, right or wrong it is merely the collection of information through our sensory perceptions. His book is a fantasic read and well written it can help others whom are trying to put a face to their questions a little more in line. I personally am one for those who challenge us to look, listen and observe. I am one for those that make us think hard and long about so many things in our lives. Walsh has drawn a lot of fire, but he is essentially just making us think and question! Thats what make CWG an excellent book! Challenge your mindsets!
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