Chapter 2
TALKING WITH GOD
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Every one, sooner or later talks to God, or desires to do so. But why write about something so intimate, such as the relation between a man and God?
The purpose is to share with others the message of the Gospel.
Because faith in God is discovered through the faith in others.1
I want to try to explain the relationship with God that a believer in Christ can have.

Moreover to make His Word, the Bible, become something personal. The passages inserted in this text may seem long, but are necessary because the Word of God is self-explanatory.
The concepts I want to express need to be based on the reality of the Bible as much a possible, contrary to some that use Bible verses out of their context.

Unfortunately the world tends to ignore a relationship with God in the everyday life. It teaches to neglect the reality that the Lord is the living God, who loves, thinks, talks, and communicates with man.2
Many people consider themselves Christian, but in reality for them being Christians is an external factor, tied to appearances, emotions and traditions.3
The substance of Christian life, the daily relationship with our Creator has been annulled. Most people who work on television, in the news papers, on the radios, ignore that the sky that is above them, that the air that they breathe and their brains, are all the work of a sole Creator, who brought these things into existence by an act of his will.
Millions of people call themselves Christians but don't believe in the resurrection of Christ, don't believe that He is truly God made man. don't know the Bible, don't pray, don't evangelize.4
The real Christian, though, cannot remain silent. He cannot stay hidden, not because he is forced to do that, but because the power of God who lives in him 5,cannot be withheld. The presence of God in a man is visible; one cannot be a Christian accidentally, without knowing it, nor by another man's will.
These remarks, may seem fanatic and presumptuous, but on the contrary are moved only by the acknowledgement that a lot of people live without a personal relationship with God.
The conversations are not expected to be anything special or particular. They simulate a dialogue with God, something that constantly takes place in the mind of a true Christian.
A person that considers himself a believer but doesn't continuously confront himself with the will of his Creator probably isn't a believer at all.

I tried to imagine myself meeting with God physically and how He would tell me what He has taught me all along in these years through the reading and studying of the Bible, through prayer, through the fellowship of other believers, participating in conferences with other believers, reading Christian books, studying and meditating upon creation.

The final objective of these pages is to present this marvelous Friend, the Lord, in the context of a personal relationship, unique, but open to anyone. So that anyone, understanding the possibility of achieving it, will search for it and receive it personally.6

It is important to underline that the thoughts expressed in these conversations don't come from a personal point of view, but are based on the Bible (which for the Christian is the Word of God). That's why it is important to read the footnotes and the verses at the bottom of the page, the references to every important statement.

Some notes have been added to explain concepts to those whom seldom, or maybe for the first time, read the Bible.

The Book in other languages
L'Amico Silenzioso
L'Ami Silencieux
Der Stille Freund

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