Neville is forbidden to deny biblical historicity at a 1945 Los Angeles lecture

On first coming to Los Angeles in 1945 he was invited by a prominent metaphysical figure to lecture on the Bible to his 400-500 graduates, and five minutes before taking the platform was told he could not speak on the non-historicity of the Bible; Neville agreed for that night only and quoted scripture back at him.
Date (happened)
1945
unresolved
  1. 1945 stated · preferred
    Source "back in 1945", told in A Parabolic Revelation (nid 1460)
  2. 1945 stated
    Source Acts of God ¶2passage 557411: 'when I first came into this city back in 1945' with wife and two girls
    Reasoning Neville explicitly identifies 1945 as his first arrival in Los Angeles with his family and describes their cross-country train journey and Gaylord Hotel stay.
  3. before April 1972 bound · probable
    Source Acts of God ¶38Passage 557447 in Acts of God recounts the earlier confrontation; node 2182 is delivered circa April 1972 at probable confidence.
    Why Conservative bound from the dated telling; no arrival year inferred.
    Reasoning Neville describes the confrontation in the past as occurring when he first came to Los Angeles, so it predates this probable circa-April-1972 telling. The packet's relation note mentions 1945, but the quoted passage itself supplies no year, so no 1945 claim is made.
  4. 1945 estimated · probable
    Source Acts of God ¶38
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 030)
    Reasoning Passage 557447: 'when I first came here... he dared to tell me that I must not teach from his platform the nonhistoricity of Jesus.' The database dates the same clash to 1945 (17011, 17612, 18532, 19349, 8500); the Barbados visit of December 1945 to May 1946 (frame 20589) means he was in Los Angeles before it. The 1972 passage gives no year itself, so probable rather than certain.
Place
Los Angeles
Persons
Neville Goddard
Mrs. Goddard (Neville's wife)
Victoria Goddard
Told / reported
  1. 10 June 1969 stated · doubtful
    Source A Parabolic Revelation (nid 1460), telling 1460-6, told 1969-06-10
  2. 6 June 1969 estimated · probable
    Source current preferred delivery claim on A Parabolic Revelation (nid 1460): 1969-06-06 probable
    Why Append-only correction beside the earlier catalog-derived telling date.
    Reasoning At packet-read time nid 1460's preferred delivery claim is the document-native 1969-06-06 byline at probable confidence; this telling inherits that day and cannot exceed its confidence. The prior 1969-06-10 told row is retained.
  3. c. April 1972 estimated · probable
    Source Acts of Godpreferred circa-April delivery claim on nid 2182
    Reasoning Passage 557411 belongs to nid 2182, whose Richard McCoy news anchor places delivery circa April 1972 probable.
Sources

Source

  • Nature God Revealed Us ¶16 (About five minutes before I took the platform, the man took me aside and told me that I could not speak on the non-historicity of the Bible, because he teaches the Bible as history and did not want his people disturbed.)