Warning!!! This is not a book about the Jesus of the Bible even though it claims to be. Chopra's take is that Jesus "attained God-consciousness." As you would expect he does selective quotations from the Bible, but explains away what he doesn't want to use as information that was obviously biased because of the views of the writer. It doesn't seem to strike him that his selections are exactly that, selections made specifically to fit the bias of the writer.

I am saddened by the impression of Christianity that Chopra has developed. He occasionally mentions his experience with the "church" and quotes church leaders he knows, but his understanding of orthodox chritianity is so far from what the truth is that his arguments become pathetic. The Church does have its problems and Chopra points those out, but he also treats fringe and extreme ideas as if they are mainstream.

The book is an easy read, a credit to Chopra's writing skill, but his reasoning and arguments fall flat to anyone who has basic Biblical understanding. Chopra often makes an argument from a single verse taken out of context to which someone familiar with the broader scriptures would understand that the verse is in reference to something else entirely and the reasoning depends on completely ignoring other passages. Of course, Chopra has no problem with that because those other verses were obviously distorted by the author's bias.

I was almost amused as I read the last pages of the book and found the author lifting up Jesus as courageous because he understood that anytime you stand up against evil that you draw closer to God, and just paragraphs later accused fundamentalist Christians of being bigoted, self-righteous, and fearful for doing the exact same thing.

Deepak Chopra is no fan of Christians, intentionally ignorant of the Bible, and sadly has a distorted view of the Church which leaves this book with no true redeeming quality.