Editorial Review:Product Description:Who is Jesus Christ?
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The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not one Jesus, Chopra writes, but three.
First, there is the historical Jesus, the man who lived more than two thousand years ago and whose teachings are the foundation of Christian theology and thought. Next there is Jesus the Son of God, who has come to embody an institutional religion with specific dogma, a priesthood, and devout believers. And finally, there is the third Jesus, the cosmic Christ, the spiritual guide whose teaching embraces all humanity, not just the church built in his name. He speaks to the individual who wants to find God as a personal experience, to attain what some might call grace, or God-consciousness, or enlightenment.
When we take Jesus literally, we are faced with the impossible. How can we truly “love thy neighbor as thyself”? But when we see the exhortations of Jesus as invitations to join him on a higher spiritual plane, his words suddenly make sense.
Ultimately, Chopra argues, Christianity needs to overcome its tendency to be exclusionary and refocus on being a religion of personal insight and spiritual growth. In this way Jesus can be seen for the universal teacher he truly is–someone whose teachings of compassion, tolerance, and understanding can embrace and be embraced by all of us.
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Book offers fresh look at Jesus
Though the study of Metaphysics is not new for me, Deepak Chopra offers insights that are refreshing and make sense of concepts that I always felt didn't make much sense. He sheds light on the true and deeper meanings of Jesus' teachings.
He explains the progression of the time following Jesus' death, giving background of the current biblical chapters and the lesser-known Nag Hammadi Scrolls. He also discusses the politics of the times when the books were written and why so many have been excluded from the versions so widely known today.
This book has made many concepts clearer for me and given me a new appreciation for Jesus' teachings.
I should also mention that Unity has a 6-week series discussing this book, with half-hour interviews of Mr. Chopra and Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell. The series can be found online at Unity.FM .
I highly recommend this book. It has made a real difference in my life.
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Undiscovered Country
As I know lots of people will be curious about this book and knowing that we are all have different ideas about Jesus - I will keep my comments brief.
Mr C has written a very well rounded, thoughtful, insightful book. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to explore another field of awareness. To my mind, this book does not offend anyone - it is written with Chopra Clarity and only asks us to look within ourselves and find that union of which we are all apart.
A book of deep concepts, one that will challenge one to think and to ponder even more on our connection to the source of all Life.
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light for more understanding
Chopra's work is a willingness to look Scripture without preconceived understandings and misunderstaings about meaning,,,,,He presented ideas that can be validated...... Very refreshing!!!
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God equals consciousness
A coincidence that this book was published in 2008. I think not. This book represents a great part of the "Religion of Oprah" and our new President-elect. "But if you decide not to fight, your mind will lose interest in evil, and as it does, evil will retreat." "Jesus will not return physically to raise the dead from their graves. Instead , the Second Coming will be a shift in CONSCIOUSNESS that renews human nature by raising it to the level of the divine." "Life can be organized by loving your neighbor, TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK, NOT RESISTING EVIL, and so forth." "Love your enemies". God = consciousness = the goal. "Keep AWAKE", "The light", "enlightened" and "The Gospel of Enlightenment". Jesus believed in and taught the message of Karma. "Jesus raised the topic of karma when he said "As you sow, so shall you reap." "Transcending the physical world to reach the realm of the soul." "God will remove the effect of sin as many times as it takes before repentance (giving up the wrong act) finally sticks." "Give away your possessions." "Or what King ,going out to wage war against another King, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one who comes against him with twenty thousand? if he cannot, then, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for the terms of peace. So, therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up all of your possessions." Plus "fifteen steps to God-Consciousness: Lessons and Exercises."
I would not recommend purchasing this book because it is not worth it. Get it from the library. It is a quick read and not all that interesting except to those who are extremely interested in anything written about religion. In that regard, I believe it is putting forth a "modern Jesus", updating him if you will, for people who do not have time or inclination to go to church, but as another reviewer said "gives one license to call oneself Christian" without actually having to DO anything one thinks of as Christian, aside from giving up material possessions and turning the other cheek. It's not a dangerous book, unless one feels that intense pacifism is dangerous, nor is anything in it entirely new, but it will be another great source of income for its author.
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C.S. Lewis Said it best
In his famous book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes this statement,
"A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg--or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."
