Movie Reviiew
Conversations With God
Reviewed by:
Rev. Bryan Griem
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Theologically, Walsch, like the god with which he converses, is all over the place. Walsch was a
Roman Catholic in his youth, but one wonders how devout his family was, given the identification of his mother as a member of the Order of the Eastern Star (a Freemason satellite fraternity which is disallowed by the church for its syncretism and occultism). The OES symbol appears on her gravestone in the movie. His mother also appears in dreamlike recollections where she apparently read his palms when he was a child.
Earlier in the film, we encounter Walsch giving a lecture at a Unitarian church. The very name belies opposition to the Christian belief in a
trinitarian God, and Unitarians are notorious for being sympathetic with just about every religious expression except the Christian one which necessarily excludes the others.
On the movie poster itself, there is an endorsement quote by
New Age guru, Deepak Chopra, an advocate of
Hinduism and variant Transcendental Meditation [TM]; and the company that produced the movie is the Spiritual Cinema Circle, a group that puts out just about anything with a spiritual bent, truth unquestioned.
Then there’s the voice of “God,” which contradicts virtually everything God has previously revealed about Himself in the Bible.
This is the ultimate test for truth when it comes to assessing spiritual prophets (
Deu. 13;
Gal. 1:8-9),
and Neale Donald Walsch has certainly become a false one at that. Jesus taught his
disciples to pray to “Our Father in Heaven,” and he also warned “There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day” (
John 12:48).
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This is not the God of the Bible. The
God of the Bible is almighty, eternal, and omniscient; superior to human beings because he created us, and did so for his own purposes. His
incarnation as the
Savior Jesus Christ was because we all needed saving; “for all have all sinned” (
Romans 3:23) and are therefore justly deserving of condemnation. God provided the only means for us to be
reconciled to Him, through Jesus Christ.
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