Sunday, April 17, 2011

A Conversation with God

Recently I had the opportunity to read the book "A Conversation with God", by Alton Gansky. I must say that this book, although interesting to look at, came to me with some questions that I had thought of some times in my life. Although the book is informative and I like the fact that it attempts to answer questions that we humans may have all had at one time or another in our lives, I must say that I was rather disappointed in the fact that (for those who have questions and are not believers), there were not direct references to the Bible; the most important piece of information used in this book, directly in the responses used by the 'conversation' answerer (ie: God or the apostles). I was also disappointed that the main opponent in the conversation aluded to in the title, was not always just the only response given. I think that this could be somewhat confusing to someone who is not familiar with the Bible or who has absolutely no background in any religion at all. Overall, the book is a pretty good attempt at trying to give some answers for those of us who have some pretty valid, hard-thought questions about what the Bible says and what we may each have thought about through our lives. I just find that it possibly is not for someone who has no background in Christianity or faith at all because they may not understand who the apostles are or how they might relate to part of the answer to a question that is posed.