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    ONE TRUTH MINISTRIES

    Conversations with my Selfby Brian Flynn

    In the last couple years there have been an unusually high number of moviesthat have an obvious and clear New Age message. Indigo Children and Bee

    Season are two of those along with more recent releases such as Peaceful

    Warrior.

    Now, soon to be released (October), is Conversations With God, based on the

    very popular book series by New Age writer Neale Donald Walsch.

    Neale Donald Walsch, who wrote Conversations With God, is considered oneof the most prominent people in today's New Age spirituality. His book took

    shape when Walsch became frustrated with his life after four failed marriages,and he decided to write a letter to God. He picked up a yellow legal pad and

    began to pour out his frustrations.

    He wrote:

    What have I done to deserve a life of such continuing struggle? To my surprise,

    as I scribbled out the last of my bitter, unanswerable questions and prepared totoss my pen aside, my hand remained poised over the paper, as if held there by

    some invisible force. Abruptly, the pen began moving on its own. I had no idea

    what I was about to write, but an idea seemed to be coming, so I decided toflow with it. Out came...

    "Do you really want answers to all these questions, or are you just venting?"

    Thus begins Walsch's conversations with God, and we get to read what God

    says....

    Let's take a look at some of these conversations Neale has had with God. In thisparticular conversation, Neale is discussing right from wrong with God:

    Walsch: But those who have taught me all about the rights and wrongs, the dos

    and don'ts, the shoulds and shouldn'ts, told me all those rules were laid down by

    Youby God.

    God: Then those who taught you were wrong. I have never set down a "right"or "wrong," a "do" or a "don't." To do so would be to strip you completely of

    your greatest giftthe opportunity to do as you please, and experience theresults of that.... To say somethinga thought, a word, an actionis "wrong"

    would be as much as to tell you not to do it.... To prohibit you would be torestrict you. To restrict you would be to deny the reality of Who You Really

    Are.

    This kind of talk is sweet music to the moral relativist who loves to hear and

    believe people are Divine and are thus God. Walsch later asks God about goodand evil only to get the following response:

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    that which you call evil that you can know good; only through that which you

    call the work of the devil that you can know and do the work of God. I do notlove hot more than I do cold, high more than low, left more than right. It is all

    relative. It is all part of what is. I do not love "good" more than I love "bad."

    Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

    Let's examine what Godis saying. God's plan is to allow you to do as youplease even if it harms others. One of the few behaviors left in our society that

    makes even New Agers recoil is pedophilia, so let's use that as the example. Isit therefore God's plan to allow us to harm children to teach us to know whatgood is? God doesn't love the good of protecting children from a pedophile

    more than the bad of allowing it to happen? Neale's God is sick.

    And what was that he said about Hitler? He's going to Heaven too? Why does

    Walsch's God write this? Is it to convince us Hell or punishment do not existthat we can do no wrong in the eyes of God? We can do anything we want

    without consequences or guilt; in which case we do not need to ask for

    forgiveness and therefore certainly have no need for the Cross of Jesus Christ.

    This is the freedom man has longed forto be autonomous, to be God. Thedeclaration in Walsch's first book that Hitler too will go to Heaven must have

    caused a stir, even for New Agers, for in his second book, he clarifies:

    God: Hitler went to heaven for these reasons: There is no hell, so there is noplace else for him to go. His actions were what you call mistakesthe actionsof an unevolved beingand mistakes are not punishable by condemnation, but

    dealt with by providing the chance for correction, for evolution. The mistakes

    Hitler made did no harm or damage to those whose deaths he caused. Thosesouls were released from their earthly bondage, like butterflies emerging from a

    cocoon.

    He did no harm or damage by the deaths he caused? The families of the

    millions he killed never wept a tear? The children of parents who died inAuschwitz never experienced loss? The wives that survived their husbands'

    murders and torture never experienced pain? In this next exchange God

    describes the way in which to know what truth is and how to make all of life's

    decisions:

    God: You cannot know God until youve stopped telling yourself that you

    already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that youve

    already heard God. I cannot tell you my Truth until you stop telling Me yours.

    Walsch: But my truth about God comes from You.

    God: Who said so?

    Walsch: Leaders. Ministers. Rabbis. Priests. Books. The Bible, for heaven'ssake!

    God: Those are not authoritative sources. Walsch: They aren't?

    God:No.

    Walsch: Then what is?

    God: Listen to your feelings. Listen to your Highest Thoughts. Listen to your

    experience. Whenever any one of these differ from what you have been told byyour teachers, or read in your books, forget the words. Words are the least

    reliable purveyor of Truth.

    Whenever you are told something different by teachers or what you have read

    in books, ignore them and do as you wish. I feel it, therefore it is right. I wonder

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    High School took this same type of advice.

    It would seem that Walsch's God allows you to do anything you please, but no,wait a minute:

    God: If you ever lit a cigarette in your lifemuch less smoked a pack a day for

    20 years as you haveyou have very little will to live. You dont care what you

    do to your body.

    Walsch: But I stopped smoking over 10 years ago!

    God: Only after 20 years of grueling physical punishment. And if you've evertaken alcohol into your body, you have very little will to live.

    Walsch: I drink very moderately.

    God: The body was not meant to intake alcohol. It impairs the mind.

    Now all of a sudden God is upset with a choice. It is okay for Hitler to kill

    millions of people but not okay for Neale Donald Walsch to smoke or drink?

    Walsch: But Jesus took alcohol! He went to the wedding and turned water into

    wine!

    God: So who said Jesus was perfect?

    It seems that God is now contradicting Himself. If he was the true God,

    wouldn't you expect him to be consistent? Unchanging? He allows you to dowhat you please, but if you drink or smoke, that is ... wrong? I thought no rights

    or wrongs existed!

    Is Walsch's God a God of love? If you can remember back to the time when you

    were a teenager and your parents had control over you, Im sure there weretimes when you wished they didn't. If only they would allow you to do as you

    please.

    Isn't one of the expressions of love a parent shows his or her child that of setting

    boundaries? Telling them right from wrong? Restricting them? I'm sure you felt

    as a teenager that discipline wasn't fun, but now as an adult and as a parent you

    realize it was an expression of love and caring.

    Walsch's God doesn't care. Does he meet the standard of the New Age as a God

    of love? No, he is a God of indifference:

    God: You are living your life the way you are living your life, and I have nopreference in the matter. This is the grand illusion in which you have engaged:

    that God cares one way or the other what you do. I do not care what you do, and

    that is hard for you to hear.If there is one thing we want God to tell us, it is that we can do anything we

    want when it comes to sex. Walschs God delivers:

    God: Put away your pointless taboos and restrictions upon sexual energy

    rather, help others to truly understand its wonder, and to channel it properly.

    God: But ... may sex be used for purposes of simple personal gratification? Thesurprising answer is yesbecause "personal gratification" is another word for

    Self Love.

    Does God mean that the sex as described above is to be contained within the

    confines of marriage? According to Walschs latest book, apparently not:

    "My most romantic moments, by the way, were moments when I chose not to

    withhold anything.... I recall meeting a woman years ago at a party and looked

    right at her and said, "I want to go to bed with you. Sorry I have put it that way,but I only have about 5 minutes here." And she said, "I wouldn't mind doing

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    ever had ... We asked ourselves at the end of that weekend: Why can't we just

    do this all the time? By the way, we have never seen each other again since andwe knew that we probably wouldn't."

    I think these last two conversations between Neale Donald Walsch and God

    sum it all up:

    Walsch: I've searched the path to God all my life.

    God: I know you have.Walsch: [A]nd now I've found it, and I can't believe it. It feels like I'm sitting

    here, writing this to myself.

    God: You are.

    God: Come to Me along the path of your heart, not through a journey of your

    mind. You will never find Me in your mind. In order to truly know God, youhave to be out of your mind.

    In order to know Walsch's God I couldn't agree more. Include this on your list

    of movies to avoid this fall.

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