What God Wants by Neale Donald Walsch

Author:Neale Donald Walsch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2005-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Reflecting on the human experience, it may be difficult to imagine a “wantless” God. We’ve been so trained, so indoctrinated, to believe that there is something God wants from us that it’s almost impossible to conceive of a God who wants nothing. Yet consider the possibility that there is nothing that God could want, because there is nothing that God is not.

If God is everything, has everything, can create everything, and has created everything, what is God without?

If God is the All in All, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Unmoved Mover, the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, the Most Holy and the Most High, what is there left for God to want or need?

The answer keeps coming up, nothing. No matter which way you look at it, no matter how you try to twist it or turn it around, the answer keeps coming up, nothing.

This is the truth about God that cannot be believed. This is the truth about God that has not been taught.

Once again I invite you to consider this truth. Ponder deeply its implications:

GOD WANTS NOTHING.

This truth has not been taught because teaching this truth would change the world. Only the idea of a God who is not everything, and who is separate from what He is not, could justify or explain the world that humanity has created.

If the world as it presently exists is the world that people wish to support, if it’s a world that they do not wish to see changed, they’ll never condone the teaching of the idea of a God who is unified with everything, separate from nothing, and who needs nothing. Indeed, they’ll fight this idea to the end, because they know that their world, and the power they have accumulated within it, will come to an end anyway should a new idea of a Unified, Complete God ever be embraced.

And so, from the earliest days of the young lives of all of your offspring, you’ll be encouraged to teach of a God of Separation, a God of “wants,” who must be placated, appeased, mollified, and obeyed.

You’ll be asked to tell wide-eyed children of a God who has not been pleased by humans, because humans have disobeyed Him, and of a God who has distanced Himself from humans as a result.

You’ll be invited to teach of a God who has thrown humans out of Paradise, forcing them to now earn their way back in.

Or, if you don’t teach of original sin, you’ll teach of the danger of living in sin, of living a life not reconciled with What God Wants —a God whose needs must be met, who commands that things be a certain way, or He will never allow humans to experience Oneness with Him.

Any story other than this—and certainly a story of a God who wants nothing —will be considered apostasy.

Yet if you changed your story, if you began telling of a God who wanted nothing because God is One with everything, including humans, and

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