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Editorial Review:
In the author's words, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD FOR TEENS is "a look at all the questions that teenagers from every corner of the globe are asking, and the answers that I have received from God in my private meditations." Some of the questions include, "Are you listening, "Why do good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good people," and "How will I know when it will be the right time to say, 'I love you'?" To compile questions for this book, Neale Donald Walsch traveled all over the world to speak with young people in order to accurately incorporate their unique issues into his personal dialogue with God. The result is, in the words of the author, "one of the first books ever to speak to teens from God's point of view."
Description of Conversations With God for Teens:
Conversations with God for Teens reads like a rap session at a church youth group, where teenagers discuss everything they ever wanted to know about life but were too afraid to ask God. Once again author Neale Donald Walsch acts as the verbal conduit, showing teenagers how easy it is to converse with the divine. After the enormous success of his previous Conversations with God books, Walsch was asked to write a book for teenagers. So he collected questions from teenagers around the world, brought them into his private dialogue with God, and then printed God's answers on the page. So when Claudia, age 16, from Perth, Australia, asks, "Why can't I just have sex with everybody? What's the big deal?", the answer God offers her is: "Nothing you do will ever be okay with everybody. 'Everybody' is a large word. The real question is can you have sex and have it be okay with you?" There's no doubt that the casual question-and-answer format will help make God feel welcoming and accessible to teens. And the introduction by Alanis Morissette raises the "cool" factor considerably. Nonetheless, it's not for all teenagers: older adolescents (17 and older) may find it hokey or manipulative, and preteens (10 to 12) could find some of the questions too mature. --Gail Hudson
Conversations With God for Teens Reviews:
A Good Read for Adults, Too 
2008-08-22 - Conversations with God for Teen is an especially good read for teens, parents, and teachers. If you liked Conversations with God, you will have a nice treat with CWG for Teens which offers fresh new insights and perspectives on today's problems.
closed minds such a shame
2008-02-07 - I have read many of neale's books and find him to be one of the best in this genre. After seeing so many negative reviews on this book I felt a need to write one, my first. Almost all negative reviews come from what I would call religious fundamentalist, one of the greatest problems of our time. We have evolved medically, technologically, and in so many other ways. Yet most people find it impossible to evolve spiritually. They still cling to 1000 year old ideas and hold them as the truth and nothing but the truth. Even if you follow teachings of the king james version of the bible. This version is less than 400 yrs. old after yrs. of stories being passed down through generations by word of mouth and edited over and over before coming to what we have today as a bible. I find a lot of truth in the bible but their is also a lot of false teachings. Think for just a second on the times this was written. Kings were in control, the very people Christ spoke out against, women were not regarded highly at all. And control was a big priority of hierarchies at the time and don't think for one second they had no involvement in editing the text of your current bible.
I truly beleive that God still speaks to all of us. Not just those written of in the bible. It is not a matter of who God is speaking to but who is listening. Don't fall prey to the herd mentality. Obviously where most of the negative reviews come from. There is nothing wrong with admitting we don't know yet all there is to know of the wonders of god and life. But there is terrible problems and consequences in thinking we know it all and being wrong. The world we live in gets smaller all the time and with recent scientific discoveries our galaxy is just one of billions.
Christ tried to wake us up over 2000 yrs. ago and we are just now beginning to do so. I beleive and have more confidence in this younger generation growing up now and would urge anyone to read any of neale's books. They are truly divinely inspired. God is bigger than any man made religion. And they are all man made. Christ never said anywhere in the bible to become a christion. Mohammed never said become a muslim. All religions at their core speak the same truths. It is to bad we as humans in our quest to always be right constantly misinterprut their message. Don't let your mind talk you out of what you feel. The more you seek the truth of god and heaven the more you will see it and in turn the more you will seek it. God bless us all, these are truly great times to be alive not easy but great times to be alive. Great changes are at hand and are up to us as a whole. We are not the white race, black race, muslim race, christian race, jewish race, gay race, straght race, etc. We are the human race and this is our world, YOUR WORLD. Let yourself become awakened to your truth. You might just create something beyond your wildest dreams.
****Best Book : Must Read*** Will Change your Life for the better
2008-02-01 - This is one of the best books ever written. It changed my life in amazing ways for I was no longer a sinner worshiping a wrathful and vengeful God who may condemn you to hell if you do not obey his commands. Instead I now love a very caring and loving God. I feel now more free and more responsible and happy in my life.
I very much recommend that every one read this book. It will present you ideas which are quite interesting.
The core message in this book is that God is not a small minded fearful or wrathful God who is sitting on a big golden throne willing to send his children to burn in hell. Instead, Walsch suggests that God is an all caring and loving God who loves you UNCONDITIONALLY.
N-Joy.
Conversations With What God? 
2008-01-16 - Whenever you see a book called Conversations with God for teens, the first question you must ask, of course, is, "Which God?" I promise it is not the Christian God. A Christian, no matter the denomination, can say:
"I believe in God the father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the father almighty, from where he will come to judge the living and the dead." That is to say, a Christian believes in a Triune Godhead, the second part of which was a man with a known history, who was God's Son and His perfect sacrifice for our sins. Without that, you are not, by definition, a Christian.
I can say definitely that Neale Donald Walsch is not a Christian because he said that when the Bible states we are "made in the image of God" it means that when God created people, He broke off little pieces of Himself and let them run free. If that were the case, how would Jesus Christ be His only begotten Son? Can't happen. Although this book has taken a lot of heat, it has been primarily targeted because of its acceptance of homosexuality and lesbianism (contrary to what I first thought, "homosexuality" does not entail "lesbianism." New vocab lesson of the day). Honestly, that has been the least of my concerns thus far.
In short, he is a neo-Platonist masquerading as a Christian--that is to say, all things emanate from the One and are trying to return to it. Walsch says that we pick our parents, that every soul comes into being to experience certain qualities of divinity, and, in short, we grow closer to our divine nature by remembering our soul's condition before we were born more than by learning anything. It tells people exactly what they want to hear--you are what you make of yourself, you are a Creator and can create any circumstance for yourself ... well, you've heard this before from any pop-self-help psychologist. It's not just Greek paganism holding the banner of Christianity--it's bad Greek paganism.
Let's just put it this way: a book called Conversations with God for teens was published by secular Scholastic Inc., not any Christian publishing company. There's a very simple reason for that. Scholastic cares about people buying their books. They knew people would buy it. Christian publishing companies didn't care that it would sell 5 million copies because the book is not Christian.
The Four Last Things
2007-11-01 - In Mr. Walsch's writing, he says..(representing himself as God).."I do not forgive anyone because there is nothing to forgive. There is no such thing as right or wrong."
It is important for young people to understand the truth. There are many things that we will all experience in this world, and much of it can be confusing. There are four last things that are certain and will occur. Those four last things are Death, Judgement, Heaven or Hell.
We all have a free will which God gave us to choose right from wrong. After we die, the choices we made on earth won't just impact our lives for a day or a week, but eternity. Think about eternity and the four last things. May God bless us and have mercy on us all, including Mr. Walsch.
