I have a copy. I keep it around as a reference into many troubled hearts.
According to the God I know, whose firstborn son is Jesus Christ, who became
flesh, lived in the world, died, and was resurrected on the third day, the
"God" referred to in "Conversations with God" by Neale Walsch is a demon, an
evil spirit which calls itself a god, which possesses Neale Walsch and is
corrupting him.--Jonathan E. Brickman
Although I have been told by others, or have at least heard opinions that were opposite of CWG, I have never been attacked so directly. (But I suppose I took it directly, it was more of a stament agains Walsch...not me.) I am not out to "witness" CWG, but when I hear someone I think may be interested by it, I do bring it up. Jon Brickman held some views that were very interesting. And many Christians disagreed with him. But in his mind (and I agreed with many of his views) everything he believed was completely backed up biblically. There are many Christians who have no problem applying many of the ideas in CWG to their lives, and remainging true with their identity and relationship with Jesus Christ.
I suppose I was just surprised by the answer. Of course it may have been that I wasn't expecting him to know of the book. "...a reference into many troubled hearts." Am I a troubled heart? I'll admit that his statements at first gave me a twinge of fear. Fear of...What if? What if....there are evil spirits? What if there really is a satan, and what if Neale Walsch and CWG is seriously evil? That kind of sucks. ;)
But even if I were to consider everything again, that brief moment of fear instantly hits and turns away when I remember again what CWG has done for me. It has given me faith in a loving God. In has made me understand and accept others. It has given me the freedome to search and express who I am without fear. It has opened my eyes to a world full of love, and the choice to perceive things how I choose, and to take control of my reality. I have seen the message of CWG turn around lives and do beautiful things. Can that really be the work of the devil?
And if I were to believe that CWG is evil incarnate, then it still does not approach or answer my difficulties and confusion with the hell of Christianity. I do not choose to live by the many things I read from CWG because it sounded "cool." So much of it sang right true to my heart, and I felt so much love while reading it. It was an experience and a seen reality of God that captivated me and took me in.
I took Jon Brickman's comments personally because by saying Walsch is taken and consumed by evil spirits, then in turn that same "corruption" must have consumed me. But oh, the struggles I endured with Christianity. I feel something amazing and powerful with Christ's life. And I truly believe I have a personal relationship with Him and God. (As One!). I believe I am a Christian but definitly not as a "normal" Christian would consider. I do not follow the Bible. I do not believe in sin, at least not sin that equals as an offense against God. I believe in only the judgement we serve ourselves. And God has nothing to forgive us for, [But he has] released us from guilt. And with that we truly have free will.
