{"id":7549,"date":"2014-01-04T04:39:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2014-01-04T04:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T09:39:47","slug":"another-installment-of-tomorrows-god-a-theological-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7549","title":{"rendered":"Another installment of Tomorrow’s God, a theological revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is the third installment of a continuing series of entries from the CWG book Tomorrow\u2019s God. <\/em>If you have not yet read this text, and if you have even the slightest interest in your future and the future of your children and your grandchildren, you will find the ongoing postings here to be of utmost importance. I invite you to return to this space often to capture updates in the ongoing progression through this remarkable book.<\/p>\n

This book is a conversation between Neale Donald Walsch and God. The words spoken by God are in blue.<\/span><\/p>\n

============================================<\/p>\n

Chapter One<\/i>
\nThe Greatest Blasphemy<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need a new God.<\/p>\n

I know.<\/span><\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m serious.\u00a0 We need a new God. <\/i>The old God isn\u2019t working anymore.<\/p>\n

The old one never worked.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people think it did.<\/p>\n

They were not looking at the world around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

They weren\u2019t?<\/p>\n

Not honestly. Not comprehensively. <\/span>They were seeing only what they wanted to see.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were not seeing the cruelty and the fighting and the killing that was going on in God\u2019s name. They were not seeing the separation and the oppression and the fear and the utter dysfunction. Or, worse yet, they were <\/i>seeing it and they played into it. <\/i>They used it <\/i>as a means of controlling the people.<\/span><\/p>\n

In truth the old God, Yesterday\u2019s God, might have made individual lives work here and there\u2014perhaps even many of them\u2014but that God was never able to create a just society or a joyful, harmonious civilization, to say nothing of a peaceful world. And that God can\u2019t do that even today.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Even today, with all your powers of instant communication and total connection and advanced comprehension and increased awareness and sophisticated technology and marvelous miracles, you can\u2019t produce the simple, humble experience for which humanity has yearned from the beginning of time.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t produce peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t produce lasting joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know.<\/p>\n

And the God in whom you believe can\u2019t, either.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Why? <\/i>Why can\u2019t all the best efforts of humanity and all the help we\u2019ve begged for, and received<\/i> from God, produce this result?<\/p>\n

Because the God in whom you believe isn\u2019t real. <\/i>The God in whom you believe is made up. <\/i>It is a God you created <\/i>out of thin air<\/i>, having nothing to do with Ultimate Reality.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Well, there\u2019s a challenging thought. That\u2019s just about the greatest blasphemy.<\/p>\n

All great truth begins as blasphemy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The time to challenge your most sacred beliefs is at hand. If you don\u2019t challenge your beliefs soon, your beliefs are going to challenge you.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is meant to be challenging.<\/span><\/p>\n

This book is meant to save the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Will it?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s up to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Why isn\u2019t it up to you? If you\u2019re God, why isn\u2019t it up to you?<\/p>\n

Because my function is not to save the world. My function is to create it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And after you create it, you don\u2019t care what happens?<\/p>\n

I care what happens as much as you do.<\/span><\/p>\n

No, you don\u2019t. If you care what happens as much as we do, you won\u2019t let the world destroy itself.<\/p>\n

You mean if I care what happens more <\/i>than you do. If I care what happens as much<\/i> as you do, I will <\/i>let the world destroy itself, because that\u2019s exactly what you<\/i> are doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I care only as much as you do, the world in which you live may very well be destroyed. At the very least, life as you now know it could be irrevocably altered. And if that\u2019s what happens, I will let it happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why? Why won\u2019t you do something to stop it? <\/i><\/p>\n

Because you won\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t. <\/i>You can. <\/i>You\u2019re God. <\/i>You can do what humans cannot<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Your statement is inaccurate. I can, and YOU can<\/i>. But I will not, unless you do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why not? What kind of a God are you?<\/i><\/p>\n

The best kind there is. The only <\/i>kind there is. The kind who gives you free will, and who will never, ever interfere with that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not even to save us from ourselves?<\/p>\n

If I saved you from yourselves, then you wouldn\u2019t BE \u201cyourselves,\u201d but only a slave to me. You would not have free will. Your will would be free only until you did something that I did not want you to do. Then, I would stop the exercise of your free will and make you do what I want you to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course you would. <\/i>If you were half the God that humans think you are, you would stop us from destroying ourselves. You would do what is best <\/i>for us. You would make us <\/i>do what is best for us.<\/p>\n

By whose assessment, and by whose definition?<\/span><\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

\u201cBest\u201d by whose assessment, and \u201cus\u201d by whose definition?<\/span><\/p>\n

By yours. <\/i>By your <\/i>assessment. By your <\/i>definition. You would define what is meant by the term \u201cus,\u201d you would decide what is \u201cbest\u201d for us, and then you would make what is \u201cbest\u201d happen for all of \u201cus.\u201d We depend <\/i>on you to do this. That\u2019s what God is for.<\/i><\/p>\n

Really? Is that what you think?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Below is the third installment of a continuing series of entries from the CWG book Tomorrow\u2019s God. If you have not yet read this text, and if you have even the slightest interest in your future and the future of your children and your grandchildren, you will find the ongoing postings here to be of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}