The king of new age spirituality just wrote a book about Jesus. Fear not, Deepak Chopra limited his musings about Jesus' early life to the realm of the fiction. Although his Newsweek interview throws some red meat in the evangelical direction including mention of Jesus doing yoga in India and this quote, "Fundamentalist Christians always quote Jesus in the Gospel of John saying 'I am the way. I am the life. Nobody comes into the kingdom of heaven except through me.' But what does Jesus mean by "I"?" In his language, Aramaic, the word is translated as "the I within the I." So he may be speaking about himself as a universal spirit. In that case he can't be squeezed into a body or the span of a lifetime." We're pretty sure a few people might take issue with that one.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Jesus Searching for Enlightenment?
The king of new age spirituality just wrote a book about Jesus. Fear not, Deepak Chopra limited his musings about Jesus' early life to the realm of the fiction. Although his Newsweek interview throws some red meat in the evangelical direction including mention of Jesus doing yoga in India and this quote, "Fundamentalist Christians always quote Jesus in the Gospel of John saying 'I am the way. I am the life. Nobody comes into the kingdom of heaven except through me.' But what does Jesus mean by "I"?" In his language, Aramaic, the word is translated as "the I within the I." So he may be speaking about himself as a universal spirit. In that case he can't be squeezed into a body or the span of a lifetime." We're pretty sure a few people might take issue with that one.
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