Is the Bible the Word of God?

07.14.08

If someone has the courage
to draw out his dream from the
bosom of his soul and fight for
it’s fulfillment,there is one test
he has to overcome, that is -
Love.

Paulo Coelho

Dear Mr. Walsch!

Soon it will be five years, since the day I first held in my hands the Russian edition of “Conversations with God”. My life has been changed radically since then. Today, when I am familiar with all of your books, I can say only one thing: thank you for this great gift to the humanity.
I can’t say exactly which one of those books had the most impact on me. The first “Conversations” gave answers to many questions, that I have been searching for, throughout my entire life ( I am already in my fifties ), questions about hell, immaculate conception, punishment , revenge etc. There is no waste word in them .
Reading “Moments of Grace” I, myself , experienced something, that I can bravely call a “moment of grace”, but when I read “Home with God”, I understood how deeply I am loved, loved by Universe. Being loved is a very important thing, isn’t it? I sincerely thank you for that unforgettable experience. In my opinion there is only one title to all of your books - “Bible for today”. During these five years I told a lot of people about you and your books. To some of them I even rendered your books ,because I wanted the people, who were close to me, to have a chance to join your Revelations, to get to know your (and now mine too) God, to see the true colors of this world with eyes wide open and to understand the concept and importance of our Oneness.
Yet my most sacred wish still lives only in my mind, because I can’t find a way to accomplish it. That is - to translate your books and make them available to my people, to Armenians.
And you know what is interesting? From the moment I had the idea of translating your books into Armenian, all my business deals went down hills. I was not making enough money from my day job (I immigrated to US without any language skills and was making a living as a cab driver). I changed specialty after specialty, but the results were the same. Now I am taking classes to obtain a new profession. Soon I will graduate. Everybody guarantees job placement and a steady income. But …
Today I have a very strong suspicion, that all my business related affairs were a fiasco, just because I am not doing, what I suppose to do. Maybe my feelings were right, and all my losses is just God’s way to keep me closer to the idea of translating your books.
But there are so many obstacles. Obviously, I am limited in so many ways, to generate funds for that purpose , and most importantly, I have to provide for my family at the same time. I came up with an idea, maybe a crazy one, I don’t know, but I would like to share it with you , anyways.
As I understood, language is one of the key moments in your program “Give me 1000 men, and we will change the world”. Their is a lot of information about you and your books on the internet, but for the people with different ethnic backgrounds would have been much more interesting to know , what is exactly going on in the pages of your websites. For example a simple column in one of your sites, that will say “Languages” would make a huge difference. Anyone could click on it and choose the suitable language.
Dear Mr. Walsch! Would you be interested in something like that? Or maybe it is already done, and I just couldn’t find it. To be more specific, I am talking about Armenian language. If there was “ Armenian “ on the list of the languages, you could have introduced the concept of New God to a whole nation. I would be more than happy to be in your team and with your help and guidance organize a small group of people, to work on your new Armenian page. At the same time I could have a chance to accomplish my dream, I could translate your books into Armenian and you could publish them later on. I am hoping very much to get some kind of response from you. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my letter.

Respectfully, yours in God

Sam .
/Samvel Arakelyan/

Cyrus,

That sounds good, until you ask what they have faith in. I may believe that eating Twinkies will get me into heaven, and hold to that belief devoutly, but if it is a lie, my belief profited me nothing.

And there is concrete evidence all around us: scientific, archaelogical, historical, astronomical, empirical. It's how you interpret the evidence that decides your viewpoint. And most people start off with previously-held presuppositions and biases that prohibits them from making an objective analysis.

A believer does have to have faith, but it matters on what you faith in. Believing sincerely in a lie will not make it become truth.

God bless,

Chief1989

Neale has in effect succeeded in strikig a nice well-deserved blow at the very backbone of religious fanaticism which may be dated since times immemorial. This fanaticism is for real, and is the cause of all strife and violence in much of the world today, since its assertions are, like: Your scripture is wrong, mine is right; Your god is false, mine true. Thaddeus Tea says that Hinduism is not even religion and it has so many gods, whereas all the others ARE religions even though all but one of them are false since only one says 2 + 2 = 4, and the others say something else. Tea's argument leads one nowhere. Which is 'that' religion which says 2 + 2 = 4 = Every religion thinks and says, and preaches, that it ALONE says 2 + 2 = 4.

But as Neale says, all scriptures are word of God, and not just Christianity or Judaism, or .. . God appeared at different times in different regions and said a number of ESSENTIAL things which are essentially the same in all the religions: love, kindness, nonviolence, etc., on which the Ten Commandments, or other similar dicta were made. The tales, fables, and the utterances of prophet, Messiah, ... differ, and much of it is liable to be interpreted in the wisdom or unwisdom of the interpreter - producing light of truth or heat of violence, respectively.

Hinduism has one God as the apex, and any number of gods, for air, light, water,..., even trees, mountains, ... can be visualized as god by the believer. Wise men view God in a multiplicity of forms, and in incarnations at different times. This paradigm, which differentiates all the rest of the religions, does not have to be approved by believers in other religions for a seal of its being a religion. Hindu texts also aver, and also aver through God Himself, that God can be realized by man in the way he imagines, and yet there are a few definite forms of Him which have become the common norm for so that they can all direct spiritual contemplation in congregation, or even at the individual or family level. But yes, in one sense, Hinduism is no religion, given the same facts above (in this paragrahph). It won't insist on changing your name, even your nominal allegiance of faith, or your present practices and beliefs. It wants one just to realize that God is manifest in all His creations, animate and inanimate. High end science has at last come to realize these great pinnacles of achievement of human spiritual reflection only in Hinduism, in as much as it has inferred through its own methods of investigation based on counting and measuring, that there is a single universal consciousness of which each of us is a just speck, a divine spark.