I was intrigued when I had the opportunity to receive a copy of Alton Gansky's book, A Conversation with God from BookSneeze to review.  The books touts the opportunity to sit down with God and ask Him any question you want and hear his answer.  The book is presented in a dialog form switching back and forth between God, Jesus, Moses, Lazarus, and numerous other important people from the Bible.  There are 55 questions presented to God through the course of the book ranging from God, how can we believe you created us to How should we prepare for the end of the world to God, does choice extend to abortion?

On the surface this sounds pretty cool but the more I read the book, the harder time I had with it.  Not that anything was wrong with the facts that were presented.  Most were rewording of Bible verses.  Part of the issue I had was I found a lot of repetition as I went through each individual section.  I'm able to get things the first time and don't need to have it repeated multiple times within just a couple of pages.  Other sections just didn't seem to answer the question that had been posed in the first place.  I also found that most of the questions posed were not ones that I'm remotely interested in or would ever ask God, given the chance.  Like #10: “Is nature the sixty-seventh book of the Bible?”.  Really??  Who would think that?

I'm sure there are lots of us out there that would love to know the answers to alot of questions but we just aren't destined to know this side of heaven.  I started feeling that it was pretty presumptuous of the author to put himself into the places of important Biblical people and answer for them.

If you know anything about the Bible, I think you will be pretty disappointed with this book.  I found it quite boring and didn't like the switching of "speakers' the further into the book I got.

I'm sorry to say that this book disappointed me and I can't give it a very high recommendation.

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