God’s Message to the World: You’ve Got Me All Wrong
About This Book
Includes recipes from Chef Del Sroufe, author of the bestselling Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook and Better Than Vegan Nearly half of Americans take at least one prescription medicine, with almost a quarter taking three or more, as diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and dementia grow more prevalent than ever. The problem with medicating common ailments, such as high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol, is that drugs treat symptoms—and may even improve test results—without addressing the cause: diet. Overmedicated, overfed, and malnourished, most Americans fail to realize the answer to lower disease rates doesn't lie in more pills but in the foods we eat.With so much misleading nutritional information regarded as common knowledge, from “everything in moderation" to “avoid carbs," the average American is ill-equipped to recognize the deadly force of abundant, cheap, unhealthy food options that not only offer no nutritional benefits but actually bring on disease. In Food Over Medicine, Pamela A. Popper, PhD, ND, and Glen Merzer invite the reader into a conversation about the dire state of American health—the result of poor nutrition choices stemming from food politics and medical misinformation. But, more important, they share the key to getting and staying healthy for life. Backed by numerous scientific studies, Food Over Medicine details how dietary choices either build health or destroy it. Food Over Medicine reveals the power and practice of optimal nutrition in an accessible way.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the fourteen misunderstandings: the specific theological claims Walsch identifies as the most consequential distortions of the divine nature — including the understanding of God as having favourites, as requiring worship, as being wrathful, as having dictated specific moral codes, and as conditioning divine love on human behaviour — and the alternative understanding he offers for each
• Grasp the civilisational stakes: Walsch's argument for why correcting these misunderstandings is not a matter of theological refinement but of civilisational survival — the specific historical and contemporary connections between these theological errors and the religiously motivated violence, oppression, and division that have produced so much human suffering
• Recognise the God-without-requirements teaching: the specific positive vision of the divine that emerges from the critique — a God who has no needs, no requirements, no preferences among human beings, no wrath, and whose love is genuinely unconditional in the sense that nothing a human being could do could diminish it — and how this vision changes the entire framework of the religious life
• Learn the reinterpretation methodology: how Walsch (and 'God') approach the task of reinterpreting sacred texts and traditional teachings — acknowledging their historical significance while identifying the ways in which cultural and political pressures have distorted the transmission of what the most enlightened beings within each tradition actually understood and taught
• Appreciate the common ground dimension: how God's Message to the World, despite its critique of specific theological positions within the major traditions, also identifies the genuine wisdom and the common spiritual understanding that underlies the traditions at their best — and how this common ground might provide the basis for the kind of global spiritual convergence that Walsch regards as the only alternative to continued religiously motivated conflict
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