The Virgin Birth

[@allhimwithme5115]

Dearest Deepak, this couldn't have been more apropos to my own thoughts. After 50 years of being a traditional Christian, a few years ago I delved into the ancient pictographic roots of scripture and found that the literal interpretation of basically _everything_ was a mistake and that it all has to do with ascension to an Eastern understanding of "I AM." I'd come to the shocking conclusion (well, shocking for a life-long Christian, anyway) that if Jesus had been born of a virgin than none of his message (essentially that we are ALL The I AM) made sense at all so it must be metaphorical. And here you are affirming what we found (me and my "sister" on this Journey of Discovery). *MANY BLESSINGS TO YOU WITH MY IMMENSE GRATITUDE!*

[@monikacowley5697]

Dear Dr Deepak Chopra. Some 70 years ago, I was born into a non-practising Christian family. Even as a child, I believed I had my own direct line to God; the Bible didn't make much sense to me. In my early thirties, I came across your books; your insights, wisdom and teachings have been resonating with me to the present day. Eventually I was called to the Shamanic Path... but your books are still on my shelves and thanks to YT I meditate and listen to your words with gratitude, appreciation and great pleasure. Happy Yule Tide and New Year.🥳 Many blessings. 🤗🌻🙌✨️

[@greenteaprincess02]

Jesus is the reason for the season. ✝️

[@PhillipBarnes-k5w]

You are giving your power to ???

[@greenteaprincess02]

@PhillipBarnes-k5w proudly Jesus Christ the one and only Son of God.

[@beatlebarb64]

I knew an Episcopal minister who believed that the word 'virgin' meant 'young woman' back in the day - not what it means to us today so he dismissed that Mary was a virgin as we understand the word - very interesting!

[@wayneenosjr4747]

Merry Christmas To Deepak and all my brothers and sisters across the world. Hope and pray we can make the peace and good will towards man extend to everyday of the year! If we walk with God in our hearts everyday , then peace and prosperity for all would be the only thing on our agenda! Make it a New Years Resolution and a way of thinking and living!

[@LPVP123]

Merry Christmas Deepak 🙏🎅🏻🎄🙂🌸

[@eugeniaaguirre3442]

Thanks a lot Deepak for bringing us a new point of view about this controversial theme. Merry Christmas!

[@coverartist8899]

It is simple: The virgin birth is just poetic language for a spiritual birth or full enlightenment.

[@annelimartini6464]

POETIC YES AND --- VIRGIN MEANS YOUNG WOMAN!

[@AnitaHunt-hu2hy]

Thank you for your wisdom and Happy Christmas to you.

[@mulen-x8u]

Merry Christmas! In that day the humanity celebrate the victory of light over dark in both cases: physical and spiritual. In John's New Testament Jesus directly said about necessity to be born by Holy Spirit. Jesus Teaches Nicodemus, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. - How can someone be born when they are old? - Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!” - Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit, gives birth to spirit…” (John 3: 3-6).

[@veralucialucia3639]

Throughout his research, Beck identified three types of dysfunctional beliefs: beliefs about the self, beliefs about others, beliefs about the world . Maybe, what Beck was trying to say , is that, to release a limiting belief ,simply identify its origen. 🌊⛵️😊

[@ambigainaidoo673]

Thank you. Merry Christmas 🎅 Have a blessed and wonderful day ❤️ 🙏Enjoy your holidays. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Patricia19618]

Merci Christmas Deepak Chopra and for everyone ❤❤❤

[@carolortiz2425]

Thank you for your point of view

[@johoch40]

Happy Christmas! Happy every day! Thank you for this beautiful insight into the Virgin Conception of Christ! With God, all things are possible !

[@katyfauri]

Thank you for this insight, dr. Chopra 🙏 Merry Christmas! :)

[@MetaFormosis8]

Merry Christmas, Deepak!

[@annakarl9989]

Namaste Thank you for your wisdom 💝

[@samhardy108]

The concept of the virgin birth arises from a mistranslation of the new testament from Greek to Latin. The new testament was written originally in Greek; the word describing Mary is kore, which simply means young girl. The first translation into Latin was by St Jerome around 400ad, and used the Latin word for young girl which is virgo. Hence arose the conflation with the idea of a virgin mother. However, it was not until the Lateran Council in 649ad, 250 years later, that the idea of a virgin birth becomes concretised. For me, the idea that Jesus did not have a normal birth undercuts the whole basis of Christianity: surely, if the life of Jesus means anything, it is that he sets an example for us to follow. If he was born by extraordinary non-human means, then different rules apply and there is no example that we can, or can be expected to, follow.

[@Moses_42]

Thank you Deepak, what do you think of Neville Goddard's concept of the 'Mystery of the Christmas'? Merry Christmas to you

[@saraswatirobin5540]

Thank you so much. Deepok your the best‼️

[@ShAkTi-1111]

Merry Christmas Dr Deepak. ❤

[@chrisallard1819]

How marvellous - many thanks

[@joekennedythewriter]

Thank You Dr. Chopra for sharing that with me. I was raised Catholic, and when I was younger, I was critical, even condemning of this spiritual idea. Now that I'm old, I'm realizing that I don't know everything, certainly not God, and, although I still don't believe the idea of the virgin birth, I do see the Creative as real, and all powerful, and capable of anything, and everything.

[@lauragardella7172]

TRUTH IS WILD . MARY , High Priestess. Self Reproduced ❤ there is a scientific name for this process. All things are possible. Happy holy days

[@ilsegonzalez4529]

Thank you for this beautiful metaphysical interpretation of the Viginal Birth!

[@rolinolandi]

The virgin birth means to me that Consciousness has no beginning and no end. IT is not born, and IT is eternal. The bodies are born, and the bodies die. When Jesus stated, "I AM the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the father but by me, " he was referring to the eternal 'I AM' situated within the hearts of all beings--the image of God--the real YOU. When we turn our attention in the direction of the heart where the I AM feeling is presence, we are really turning upon the presence that we are the I AM. Jesus was also referring to this when he stated, “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’ (From the new living translation) This in my opinion has been misunderstood by many Christians as meaning accepting Jesus as your personal messiah.

[@imaginaryuniverse632]

I think it would be more accurate to refer to people who believe the Bible is literal as literalists. I don't believe it is an opinion that the stories in the Bible are at least mostly metaphorical. I believe a more accurate term for scientists who think the Universe is "literal" as a physical reality is reductionists. I believe it can be seen by any person who is capable of open minded reason that the Bible is metaphorical. I agree that everyone has a right to their opinion and I believe we should not view ourselves as being superior to others who believe or, more often I think, express a belief in things which are irrational both from a reductionist and spiritual perspective. I don't believe it's productive to get into lengthy arguments about obviously irrational beliefs such as an eternal hell for a being etc. I do believe it is productive to indicate briefly that we do not share in particular beliefs which are detrimental to society such as the most common view of karma which I believe we can see objectively has been the basis for the exercise of many forms of elitism and various other isms. I don't believe it's fruitful to get into arguments but if we don't ever simply say we disagree with some of the irrational beliefs of reductionists and literalists then I believe it is inevitable that everyone will only be able to say Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays for either theological or cultural reasons because we will have abdicated our will for the will of the irrational in the eternal present which will feel like hell until we make up for lost time as they say. I believe America is getting a taste of the flavor of the fruit we have allowed to grow for the sake of convenience or our own misunderstanding of things like pearls before swine. Save your pearls but don't feed the swine is my thinking. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays as we wind on down the road. 🙏

[@MsJilgal]

Thank you, Deepak, for your light-hearted invitation to embrace our humanity in light of All That Is. 😊

[@lauragardella7172]

It states in the Bible Jesus was born under the law❤

[@franciscocolin7490]

Merry Christmas

[@elisabethjost5847]

Again, simply wonderful and rejoicing to my soul. Merry Christmas to You and Your loved with with loving Sai Ram

[@shankarbalakrishnan2360]

If we dont use our minds we could easily live to infinity❤❤🎉🎉

[@enlightenment00]

Whoever revives his reality and is healed from his veils is Jesus. كل من أحيا حقيقته وشفي من علة الحجب فهو عيسى Ibn Arabi

[@goodperson5707]

Dear Deepak, just a suggestion, it will be interesting to hear your overview on the connection and similarities in all religions, teachings and beliefs to what you experess in your books. At some point in my life I was very stong orthodox christian believer. However, christian faith did not answer my questions and did not help me get closer to God. On another hand your book, Metahuman, touched something very beaitiful and real. The one thing I need is God to be closer and more accessible to me as human than we think he is. Religions, including christian, do not allow God to be close to humans because of sin, imperfections, etc.However, as the science shows, there is very little depend on us and on our will because we grow in very conditioning societies, no matter where were born. And we are not in control from whom we are born. So technically our lives are out our control and the only thing we can do is to swim in the direction of life forces and try not to drown. A lot of near death experience stories highlight one common thing - 'out there' is joy, peace, love, no worries, no pain. I do not believe in multiple lifes, being reborn, etc. but your perspectives together with some specles of truth in all religions give some indication of who we are and who is God=Supreme Concsiousness=Universe(choose any name for a supreme Source).

[@charleswonderling521]

Happy Holy Days to you also. Virgin Birth. Did she have contractions then Did Jesus just slide out and did Angels lay him in the manger?

[@kyliemartin8524]

Oh. I do love you. ❤

[@12RColeman]

Really what can be outside the power of a Living GOD it's individual choice to understand and accept

[@Brutuscomedy]

Pretty sure Mary didn't magically get pregnant . . . So who was the dad? an occupying Roman centurion, Jewish guy other than Joseph in Nazareth? I disagree that that theological proposition is "central" or fundamental. It may have developed many decades after the death of Yeshua. But it looks like at 2:22 you're now addressing this :)

[@jessesalinas122]

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[@TimeTraveler3Intergalactic]

It's called *Keter* in Jewish tradition. ❤

[@jamiemills2645]

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[@louisetrepanier5626]

Thank you so much for your wonderful interpretation of this myth which has lost most of its value because of dogmatic assumptions.

[@krishanthidesilva6110]

La naissance virginale

[@krishanthidesilva6110]

El nacimiento virginal

[@Seekthetruth3000]

So, God impregnated his own mother to give birth to himself! It makes no sense unless you see the whole thing as a metaphor. Merry Christmas to all.

[@Ane127]

People believe they need to believe in Jesus to be “saved”. They actually believe this. Ugh.

[@krishanthidesilva6110]

Непорочное зачатие

[@GIawarenessmusic]

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[@krishanthidesilva6110]

कुंवारी जन्म

[@krishanthidesilva6110]

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[@krishanthidesilva6110]

Die Jungfrauengeburt

[@PhillipBarnes-k5w]

Celebrating something out of confusion is not a good thing. The mystery was never solved. Could Esuas' father have been a Roman soldier? That would set the stage for conflict. Cover up of ... who is his daddy? The world struggles with that relationship ... and continues foolishly and we are killing ourselves for the reason of ... forgiving mom and dad, for not saying ... "who is my daddy"? The one you know by name. That first one that you deny and see him as your PA. Personal Asistsnt, is not your Father ... One can do without a PA. The Earthly fathers have to take responsibility for their offspring. Don't crave sex and accidentally manufacture more children while you cannot even sustain the self. Not to mention the spread of disease and disaster that ripples accross the spectrum of Believers.😂❤

[@krishanthidesilva6110]

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[@mkh2799]

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