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Originally Posted by kevlocks
by Deepak Chopra
Who is Jesus Christ?
In 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.
Third Jesus video
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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Ay Kev, how's everything (not as exhaustingly busy as it is with me I hope? lol)
Chopra start bad; there was no historical Jesus, at least not any Jesus whose teachings became the "foundation of Christian theology and thought"; that is a amalgam of already existing Pharasaic philosopy and the Wisdom Teachings of Egypt, India and Sumer. I mean, this has been known and spoken about for years, when will the Deepak Chopras of the world just tell their readers that and stop perpetuating what even they know is not correct?
If he was to speak openly about the patricentric cultural ideologies that fed Western Xianity (like Judaism before it) perhaps more people would finally come to understand just why the religion paints itself as this exclusionary faith, different and superior to all others. Personal insight and growth was never part of the Western Christian ethic, otherwise the Gnostics would not have been wiped out. |