If You Could Talk To God, What Would You Ask?
Imagine that you were priviliged enough to get an interview with God: what do you think you’d ask Him? I am pretty sure you would ask some questions having to to with life’s deepest meanings. Or would you perhaps ask questions related to things happening in your own future? On the other hand, you might come up with questions about the existence of Heaven and Hell, and where you might be heading in relation to those places.
There is really such an enormous number of questions one may feel like asking, if one got a chance to have an interview with God. My personal guess is that your idea of who God is would strongly influence the kind of questions you’d ask. For instance: do you see God as that nice person who is loving and forgiving, or do you see Him as throwing fire and brimstone at you at the drop of a hat?
Remember that story in the Old Testament, where God decides that since all humans are evil He is going to kill them all by unleashing a terrible flood? And the only human that is good enough to satisfy God is Noah, plus his family. Noah then builds an Ark to survive the flood, and is nice enough to take one pair of every animal on Earth aboard the Ark; thus saving each species from extinction. As the flood ends, the Ark strands on the mountain of Ararat, and all ends well.
Now my point is - if you compare the God acting like this with the God of the New Testament, do you think the latter would ever be capable of acting like that, drowning nearly all mankind because He got mad at them? Take for example all those little children who got drowned during the flood; were they evil also or did they just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Truly, if I ever got a chance to have an interview with God, then I would certainly ask Him if this is a true story, or just something made up to scare you.
I know of one person who says he is having conversations with God; his name is Neale Walsch. He has written some books on the subject and I’ve read some of those. He asks God deep questions and recieves really deep and profound responses. It all started one night when Neale felt very frustrated and shouted at God in despair. The rest is history. To get a taste of what kind of things God is saying, you can get the “interview with God screensaver“, a free screensaver whic is inspired by Neale’s books.
By now, Mr Walsch has written a whole bunch of books where he talks with God, and I haven’t even gotten around to reading all of them (I must confess I’m more into Buddhism). Anyway, if you are one of those people who feel it is time to update some of the old-fashioned concepts of who God really is, then I can warmly recommend Neale’s “Conversations”… book series. Even if you don’t believe it really is God that’s talking, you will most likely be very impressed with the deep and profound level of the message.
Anyone who has difficulties with some of the old-fashioned Christian ideas of who God is will feel enlightened by the God who is doing the talking in these books.