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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Is Jesus just a state of mind???
Deepak Chopra at 61, the physician and best-selling author hopes to extend conventional thought again — even more controversially — in “The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore.” Chopra challenges Christian doctrine while presenting an alternative: Jesus as a state of mind, rather than the historical rabbi of Nazareth, or son of God-more guide than man. The third perspective which Chopra calls “a cosmic Christ,” looks at Jesus as a spiritual guide whose teaching embraces all humanity, not just the church built in his name. {Associated Press}
I’ve heard Jesus called many things during my spiritual journey-but a state of mind? Come on folks, did this guy get dropped on his head when he was a baby, or has he been doing way too much peyote? Either this guy has done lost it, or either he’s had a personal encounter with Jesus and just don’t know it yet!! I pray it’s the latter!
I have a real and personal relationship with Jesus that is so real, it reminds me of that old gospel hymn that states: “and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own”. Now I know this not the “politically correct” thing to say in today’s society because they send the little men with the white suit after people like that-BUT IT’S TRUE! Jesus is as real to me as my wife is and please don’t try and convince me that she’s “a state of mind” too!
I am reminded of a quote from C.S Lewis: “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. 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 the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; 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. He did not intend to. - Mere Christianity, pages 40-41.
So is Chopra showing us “ANOTHER” way to Jesus? Can Jesus really be a figment of our imagination- is he really just a state of mind? Anybody out there ever experienced Jesus in this way?
