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Please BEWARE of this book !!
If you have children or grandchildren, work with children at
church, or you have neighbourhood 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 theatres, 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 girls 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.'
In his books, Walsch says the voice told
him that God is everything and everything is God. Therefore, we
humans are "God." Everyone around you is simply
"you" in a different form, and we are all "God."
Here, Walsch is repeating one of Satan's original lies, "You will be as God" (Genesis
3:5).
Walsch also claims that all life is
eternal. Death is "the great illusion." There is no judgment, no punishment, and
no hell, for there is no reason for any of that—there is no sin. After
death, a person goes to a different level of existence in order to
"continue the evolution of the human soul." This teaching is in
direct conflict with Hebrews 9:27 and many other passages of scripture
that teach the reality of judgment after death.
Walsch's defense of Hitler's actions are
in line with his teaching of relativism: Hitler might be called
"evil," but only "within the context of our human
experience." And Hitler was commissioned by God "to show
humanity to itself for the purpose of lifting humanity above what it had
become and what it had sunk to" (Larry King interview, op. cit.).
Therefore, in Walsch's world, Hitler was just another thread of the
tapestry and was necessary to help us move forward.
According to Walsch, there is no right way to live or one way to come to
God. There are many ways, and all of them are equally valid. All the gods
of various religions are really the same "God." Of course, the
One True God disagrees with Walsch: " Thus says YAHWEH, the King of
Israel, And his Redeemer, YAHWEH of hosts: ' I am the First and I am the
Last; Besides Me there is no God" (Isaiah 44:6).
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
schoolchildren 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.
Pass this on to every Believer you know.
God bless! And, if you are in
doubt, check out the books yourself.
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