Neale Donald Walsch - God's Abiding Love People often ask me what are
most important things that I have gotten from Conversations with God material.
I think most important thing I have gotten out of books was a deep sense of God's abiding love. I have learned in an extraordinary way of God's unremitting, unconditional love and total acceptance of us... even worst of us. This came through to me even as I was "writing" books by bare fact that I was writing them. I mean, by earthly standards of many people (including my own), I am last person who deserves to have been chosen to put this information into a series of books. Yet I was chosen, and I have put it into book form. So by that measure alone, I am clear that God loves without condition; that God rejects not even least or worst of us, and that all we need do to understand and experience that salvation is to accept it, claim it, honor it, and hold it as true.
Now there are those who disagree with me. Many, in fact, who do. They say that God's word and God's law and God's love is worthless and pointless if there was no such thing as possibility of God's rejection. They say that only way to God is through obedience to God's commands, adherence to God's laws, and - in some theological constructions - acceptance of God's Son. Failure to do any or all of these things means certain damnation, they say, and we'd better be aware of that, and ready for it, because we'll get what's "coming to us" if we don't watch out. In fact, we not only had better watch out, we'd better not cry. We'd better not pout... I'm tellin' you why...
Oh... sorry... that's a different myth. You see? Every myth we create, we create around a system of Judgment; around a construction of Reward and Punishment. It is inconceivable to us that there is a being in Universe - in Reality or in Mythology - who could accept us just way we are, and just way we choose to be.
That is because we cannot believe in ultimate purpose of life. We believe that purpose of life is to follow God's law, do as God wants, and, essentially, please God. Yet pleasing God is not purpose of life. Only an egomaniacal deity would create beings whose essential purpose was to please Him. And only an insane egomaniac would then add such treachery and misery to mix as life contains in order to make it virtually guaranteed that his created beings would stumble and fall. And only an incredibly cruel insane egomaniac would go further, saying it doesn't matter whether they fall or not, because they have already fallen! Before birth!
