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According to The New Revelations: A Conversation with God by Neale Donald Walsch the following beliefs about God and life are fallacies that create crisis, violence, killing and war:

5 Fallacies About God

3. Humans believe that God has separated them from Him
because they have not given Him what He needs.

4. Humans believe that God still needs what He needs so badly
that God now requires them, from their separated position, to give it to Him.

5. Humans believe that God will destroy them
if they do not meet His requirements.

5 Fallacies About Life

3. To get the stuff of which there is not enough,
human beings must compete with each other.

5. It is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences
created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.

5 Steps To Peace

The New Revelations invites readers to take the Five Steps to Peace.
In taking these steps, readers would:

1. Acknowledge that some of their old beliefs about God and
about Life are no longer working.

2. Acknowledge that there is something they do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.

3. Be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on the earth.

4. Be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with their inner truth and knowing,
to enlarge their belief system to include it.

5. Live their lives as demonstrations of their highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Nine New Revelations

The new revelations are contained in a series of nine statements that the book offers for readers to consider as they explore the possibility of changing their present beliefs about God and about Life.

These nine statements are:

1. God has never stopped communicating directly with human beings.
God has been communicating with and through human beings from the beginning of time. God does so today.

2. Every human being is as special as every other human being who has ever lived, lives now, or ever will live. You are all messengers. Every one of you.
You are carrying a message to life about life every day.
Every hour. Every moment.

3. No path to God is more direct than any other path. No religion is the "one true religion", no people are "the chosen people", and no prophet is the "greatest prophet."

4. God needs nothing. God requires nothing in order to be happy.
God is happiness itself. Therefore, God requires nothing of anyone or anything in the universe.

5. God is not a singular Super Being, living somewhere in the Universe or outside of it, having the same emotional needs and subject to the same emotional turmoil as humans. That Which Is God cannot be hurt or damaged in any way, and so, has no need to seek revenge or impose punishment.

6. All things are One Thing. There is only One Thing,
and all things are part of the One Thing That Is.

7. There is no such thing as Right and Wrong. There is only What Works and What Does Not Work, depending upon what it is that you seek to be, do or have.

Since the dawn of the human race, humanity has continuously advanced in technology, science and medicine. Religion, however has lagged far behind. Neale Donald Walsch, author of the megaselling Conversations with God, (which occupied The New York Times list for more than one hundred and thirty weeks) claims that God has given humanity nine new revelations to help change present beliefs about God and Life. Shaking the foundation of organized religion, The New Revelations: A Conversation with God (Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, October 2002) is a highly anticipated book that offers a timely and provocative perspective on the current global crisis and provides essential advice on how we can not only avoid despair, but help to repair the world. Walsch's books have sold over 7 million copies worldwide, and have also been translated into 27 languages.

In The New Revelations God says that "one of the biggest problems in the world today is organized religion." When I say 'organized religion', or 'religion' in general, within the context of the dialogue that we are now having, 'I want it to be known that I am speaking of those religions which teach a doctrine of exclusivity. In other words, 'our religion is the only true religion.' This kind of religion is the problem. Not all religion. This kind of religion. The kind of religion that teaches separatist philosophy and exclusivist theology."

The book also examines some of the shocking beliefs inherent in many of the Holy Books of the world's religions, and details some current examples of the results of exclusivist theology.

The New Revelations encourages us to examine our deepest beliefs and the conditions that they have created. "All behaviors are the result of beliefs," it asserts, "and we cannot make lasting changes in behavior without addressing the beliefs that underlie those behaviors." We are thereby challenged to drop our stereotypes and the attachment we have to our opinions. By inviting us to transcend our beliefs, Walsch provides a natural link that allows us to realize that our beliefs create our behaviors.

Profound, controversial, and nonsectarian, Walsch's new book offers solutions to the aggression and dogma troubling the world. It also shows us in stark and undeniable terms that most of our major beliefs about God and about Life are fallacies, fallacies that have created a world of widespread violence, excessive loss, deep-rooted anger, and unrelenting terror. The New Revelations declares that we cannot change these conditions by political or economic means, we must do it by confronting those fallacies and choosing instead the Five Steps to Peace.

This book's relevant and urgent message will speak directly to those searching for ways to understand the crisis the world is facing, as well as the crisis that this is creating in individual lives. Most important, this conversation with God shows that change is possible, and offers nine new revelations that provide profound insights that can help get humanity back on the right path.

Thanks to the many sources and the teachers for this knowledge
and wisdom that is helping us on our journey.