This is in fact the point of view of the book. The book teaches that
humanity has no need of the concept of God because we are all God
anyway so we must simply be describing ourselves when we mention God.
Theology says that Man was created in God's image
It is in fact the other way around - any fool can see that
It's about self-introspection and working with the inner voice. It's
good. It grabs all those dopey Christians out there in perhaps the
few functioning brain cells they have left to them and it makes them
look seriously at all the hoo-haa and balderdash that the Bible says
is God's wish for Man, what God expects of Man, Man's indebtedness to
God and "having God on your side" and suchlike damaging beliefs. The
God thing, as Bruno correctly asserts - is almost a publisher's hook.
The Loebian machine only believes the truth, yes? Not a pack of
Biblical lies, surely?
Christians have to get their heads sorted out on what is real and
what is not real. This is what the book deals with largely.
Kim Jones
On 23/02/2006, at 2:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> Le 20-févr.-06, à 21:00, uv a écrit :
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>>> "Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch (Hodder and
>> Stoughton
>>> 1995) is "a bloddy good read" as we like to say here in Australia
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>> I think myself that one problem with such books is that they are very
>> Christian oriented.
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> This is perhaps already present in the title which "dares" to name
> the unnameable. But it could be a sort of joke.
> Normally a Lobian entity will not say she has a conversation with
> "God", but with herself.
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> Bruno
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> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 01:33:43 PST