Email Response

Today I received an email sending a warning I thought I would share it with you my readers. I don't know if the quotations in the book are true as I have not read the book. So please if you have read these books be sure and let me know.I don't know if Oprah is pushing it and I don't know if Dr. Dobson is recommending it either. The part I wanted to share is my response...however without the original email it didn't seem to make sense so I have included it as part of the story.  

Dianne,
 I received an email that warned me to be careful about certain books:
My jaw literally hit the floor when I read some of the passages from these books. I know you encourage the kids to read so I wanted you to be aware of these books if you didn't already know. Love you

2 John 12

                   love, Misty

Begin forwarded message: 

: :  Conversations with God & Conversations with God for Teens

http://www.spiritdaily.com/Ohnooprah.htm Beware of this book!  Oprah is pushing it. It is scary that someone would be bold enough to write a book from God's point of view contrary to His Word.  Please send to all with kids or grandkids.   If you have children or grandchildren, work with children at church, or you have neighborhood children whose parents you know, please take note of the information below and pass it along to others. Schools are distributing this book to children through the Scholastic Book Club. The name of the book is Conversations with God. James Dobson talked about this book twice this week.  It is devastating.  Parents, churches and Christian schools need to be aware of it.  Please pass this information on to church/e-mail addresses, Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, friends.  Please pay special attention not only to what your kids watch on TV, in movie theaters, on the Internet, and the music they listen to, but also be alert regarding the books they read. Two particular books are, Conversations with God and Conversations with God for Teens, written by Neale D. Walsch. They sound harmless enough by their titles alone. The books have been on the New York Times best sellers list for a number of weeks, and they make truth of the statement, "Don't judge a book by its cover or title."  The author purports to answer various questions asked by kids using the "voice of God". However, the "answers" that he gives are not Bible-based and go against the very infallible word of God. For instance (and I paraphrase), when a girl asks the question "Why am I a lesbian?" His answer is that she was 'born that way' because of genetics (just as you were born right-handed, with brown eyes, etc.). Then he tells her to go out and "celebrate" her differences. Another girl poses the question "I am living with my boyfriend. My parents say that I should marry him because I am living in sin. Should I marry him?" His reply is, "Who are you sinning against? Not me, because you have done nothing wrong."  Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive... There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged." Not only are these books the false doctrine of the devil, but in some instances quote (in error) the Word of God.  And the list goes on. These books (and others like it) are being sold to school children through (The Scholastic Book Club), and we need to be aware of what is being fed to our children. Our children are under attack. So I pray that you be sober and vigilant about teaching your children the Word of God, and guarding their exposure to worldly mediums, because our adversary, the devil, roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). We know that lions usually hunt for the slowest, weakest and YOUNGEST of its prey. My Response

  Dear Misty,
Thanks for the email- I went to snoopes and looked for this story and it was undetermined...so I looked for the author and this is what I found on Wiki...


Walsch was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on September 10, 1943, and brought up as a Roman Catholic by a family who encouraged his quest for spiritual truth. He studied The Bible, the Rig Veda and the Upanishads. He says his books are not channelled, but rather that they are inspired by God and that they can help a person relate to Him from a modern perspective. The God in his books, for example, says that "there is nothing you have to do." Walsch believes in a panentheistic God, who tries to communicate Himself as being unselfish. Walsch's vision is an expansion and unification of all present theologies to render them more relevant to our present day and time. He created Humanity's Team as a spiritual movement whose purpose is to communicate and implement his New Spirituality beliefs, particularly that we are all one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being.^[1]


After I read this I was not surprised that his beliefs did not line up with true Christianity!

One part of the email referred to a section in the book on forgiveness;

Another question asks about God's forgiveness of sin. His reply "I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive... There is no such thing as right or wrong and that is what I have been trying to tell everyone, do not judge people. People have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong, because the rule is "'judge not lest ye be judged."


Once I read this to the kids they saw the error immediately....Walsch's statement that there is no such thing as right and wrong is followed by a statement that says that people have chosen to judge one another and this is wrong....
wait I thought you just said there is no right or wrong. Walsch  you can't have it both ways. Oh and by the way, that scripture that he quoted"judge not lest ye be judged", is talking about making a correct or a right judgment not a hypocritical one. In that same portion of scripture we are told to make judgments .
^Matt.7
15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

 ¹⁶Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

We have to make a judgment to know if someone is a false prophet.

There are many other passages and verses in the Bible about judging. While God is our ultimate Judge, He has also commanded us to judge according to the Word of God. This book misses the mark and if my kids read it I would be more concerned that they know how to determine truth using the scripture they have learned to measure by. Feel free to forward this email.
Thanks again,
Dianne