What God Wants: A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question

by Neale Donald Walsch

Book Overview

The biggest danger in the world today is not the asking of questions, but the assumption that we have all the answers.

WHAT GOD WANTS

This book, from the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Conversations with God, is dangerous. Why? Because it explores with startling freshness the most important question you could ever ask -- and offers with breathtaking courage the most extraordinary answer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743267141
• ISBN13: 9780743267144
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Wake up Today

I once read the original "Wizard of Oz" with my children. They asked, at the end of the story, why the people of Emerald City didn't realize there was a wizard behind the curtain pulling all the levers and making all the rules. Upon discussion, one of them said it was because the people of Emerald City didn't WANT to know.Walsch has become a "Toto" of these times and ripped away the curtain from our everyday plodding and made us question how we've seen God (and life) for so very long. Like in his previous books, Walsch's "What God Wants" will make you think twice about life. It'll make you ask questions. Question how our beliefs in God have shaped this world. Question if that is how you want it to stay. Question how we can recreate a better world today. Don't be an Emerald Citian. Be Toto! Question your reality.

So, When Was The Last Time You Read A Dangerous Book?

"The New Spirituality is a civil rights movement for the soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a separate, angry, violent, and fearful God. Human beings have always been free. They simply have not known it." -Neale Donald Walsch So, when was the last time you read a dangerous book? Hang on to your seats, because author Neale Donald Walsch challenges the sacred cows of every major world religion by daring to examine what God (truly) wants. An equal opportunity offender, his singular, simple answer to the question "What does God want?" will surprise most, offend the inert close-minded, and thrill those who are already (all ready!) riding the wave of New Spirituality. Walsch, the author of the New York Times Bestselling Conversations with God series, explores two basic questions in his book What God Wants - A Compelling Answer to Humanity's Biggest Question: 1. Who and What is God? 2. What does God want, and why? Declaring that fear and guilt are the real enemies of humanity (and differentiating them from caution and remorse) Walsh traces war, world hunger, violence, sexism, racism and more directly to humanity's belief about God and what He wants. On June 23, 2004, the fascinating results of a scientific survey conducted by Harris Interactive hit the wire services: 69% of adult Americans believe religious differences are the biggest hurdle to global peace. This overwhelming percentage is evidence that individuals are starting to wake up and realize that humanity's beliefs about God and what He wants is THE biggest problem in the world today. For many nations, entire social and judicial structures are built upon beliefs about various interpretations of sacred scriptures. The major religions, without exception, advocate an "us versus them" Separation Theology. In the 19th century, Americans sincerely accepted the biblical story of Noah's son Ham to justify slavery. In that time, to raise one's voice in protest to enslavement would have been met with persecution, accusations of heresy, and possibly death. Yet, even now, many followers of religions such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism justify discrimination, superiority ("specialness"), indifference, hatred, and violence based on what the "sacred scriptures" say. At the risk of being labeled an infidel, subversive, or "lost sinner", Walsch sounds a clarion call that NOW is the time to ruthlessly examine what humanity believes about God, and what Deity wants from humanity. Walsch asserts: "When it comes to its most sacred beliefs, our society will not tolerate new ideas that violate doctrine-or even question it. Thus, we are trying to build a twenty-first-century reality with first-century moral, ethical, and spiritual tools. This would be akin to a surgeon stepping into a modern-day operating room with a very sharp stone. It is not necessary to build our tomorrows with such primitive tools. The prohibition against new ideas and new thoughts about God can

Everyone should read it!

'What God Wants' explores some of the most controversial and sensitive questions that all of humanity has asked throughout time, about who God is, what God wants, and where do we, as individuals and as a collective fit in? Neale Donald Walsch concludes with answers that make simple sense of otherwise potentially conflicting and confusing issues, and in doing so, uncovers some exciting revelations that give hope to all of humanity, and are within everyone's reach of understanding and application to their life. This is a book that gives a refreshing perception to old, deeply ingrained belief systems, and challenges us to be greater, more thoughtful and responsible beings. I feel that the message Walsch is delivering demands a more powerful portrayal. However, whatever your belief or understanding of God, this is a very worthwhile read and is sure to open doors to much contemplation and potential change. To further explore God, there is no better reading than the compilation of remarkable teachings by Ramtha, particularly 'A Masters Reflection on the History of Humanity' Part 1 and Part 2. Ramtha's unlimited knowledge and genius gives each individual the tools and knowledge to be great, to reclaim their lost and forgotten divinity and to understand God from a personal and scientific level, giving hope for a noble, adventurous and joyfilled life. The subject of what God wants, amongst many others, is thoroughly and beautifully explored in these two volumes. Belinda Dawson.

Fasten your seat belts... this truly IS a dangerous book!!!!

Or exciting... it all depends on how you look at it. This book really is the BEST book Neale has written. It's short, fast, and clear. It provides stunning answers to the biggest question humanity can formulate. What is it, that God, our maker and creator, wants from us? Do we really know? Does any one of our conflicting religions know? Yes and no. Our knowledge is simply incomplete. To understand the answer, we must zoom out from a piece of the puzzle (a religion, for example), to the broader picture. Wanna take a ride?!? Detach yourself from your belief systems (however inclusive you think they are), open yourself up, fasten your seat belts, and get your insurance papers out before reading this book... and then read it, listen to what it says.... at the very least CONSIDER the possibility that it is true. I guarantee you, that no matter who you are, how many similar books you have read, or how much you think you know about the answer, you will be shocked (or enlightened) by the answer. The answer to the title, in Chapter 13, may make you feel empty... or full of new life and understanding and energized to change the world for the better...

What Man Needs!

This book is what mankind/womankind needs. Following up on "Tomorrow's God", Walsch's previous book, it captures exactly the problems that religious beliefs cause in everyday life. God is not some being outside of our lives, but an integral part of all of us. As such, God has no needs except for us to be. WHAT GOD WANTS truly expresses the core belief of all Christians and other religions; that God is a god of love. Walsch presents a God that is familiar to all of us in our souls. A God we all know exists, but tend to forget in our actions. What man/woman needs is to let go of fear and embrace this experience of a God of love. Many of us who were brought up to see God as this "loving" yet punishing Father figure will have a hard time accepting a God who loves us no matter who or what we are. As the author points out, an omnipotent God, who is all loving, needs nothing from his/her creations. This is a very difficult idea for those who support fear based religions to hear. This book is a must read for any true seeker of inner wisdom and spiritual insight! The ideas in here will change the world!!!