To elaborate further on my last post, I came to Jesus through the back door: meaning my interest In Jesus grew from a historical standpoint first. I found myself wanting to know the political, economic, and social climate that existed at the time of Jesus. Everything I've been reading lately, books from the most disparate groups, are leading me to the Gnostic gospels, and I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm a heretic. I was actually accused of being a heretic by a French Catholic man in Aspen, CO when I discovered my first mention of the Gnostic Gospels. I was a total virgin on the subject, and this guy got so Rabid so quickly, I thought: he has no idea that his freak-out- reaction is in no way deterring me from this path, but is actually spurring me to want to go deeper and find out what is going on here!
Quite frankly, the gnostic idea that true enlightenment means undertaking a very personal journey in an individual quest to know yourself as deeply at your core as possible ... rings true with me. Viewing Jesus as a more of a figure who guides you toward your own inner truth is delightfully refreshing. And I think its a-okay that each person's "road to salvation" be a bit different (thank God, as I can not stand conformity).
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