A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume

The best spiritual program for me, changed my life 30 years ago for the better, and still is. It’s not easy, but well worth it!

I purchased this book for a class by a Certified “Unity” instructor, because I had heard so much about it from friends and was curious. We meet once a week and spend one and a half hours reading the text aloud to each other, and pausing to discuss it. I have been reading books in the theological field for 30 years, and this one stands miles above the rest.For those of you who follow the Bible in order to learn about the teachings of Christ, you will find this book to be way beyond the Bible in giving you the understanding of how it really works, and what you should be doing with your time on earth.Christ didn’t write the New Testament, or even the Gospels. His friends and supporters did, and often the writing was done long, long after the Resurrection, maybe decades later. So you get what people remembered he said, or what they thought he said. Also, it was written in Ancient Greek, and Hebrew, not even in his native language. And so it has been translated over the years, and the translations are only as good as the knowledge of the ancient languages. Problem is, there are words and concepts in the original writings, for which there is no comparable translation in Modern English. The translators have had to substitute a word or concept that is “similar”. Just try to read some the earliest English translations of the Bible, predating the King James Version. It will be obvious that the English language itself has changes immensely over the centuries. So, it is obvious that some of the teachings ascribed to Christ have become subtly modified over the years, and some of them greatly altered.Also, much of his supposed quotations in the New Testament are parables, subject to layers of interpretation, and therefore confusion, especially by those who feel the strict need to read the Bible literally.The difference in this book is that Christ is the one who did the writing. How this was done is explained in the important Preface of the book. Here Christ has written directly in ModernEnglish, using the appropriate language to convey the crucial concepts. In this book, Christ does not use parables. If the Biblical ones are referred to, they are explained in Modern English so as to remove the confusion, and resulting erroneous thinking.There will be those who do not buy the concept that Christ has written this book for us to learn from. Your choice. All I know is that this book makes so much sense that I have stopped accepting the Bible as the superior written authority, and have little time now for those churches that are trying to teach their confusion and the misinterpretation as if it were “Gospel”.This lessons and teachings in this book are dense and intense, and probably mind boggling. They are also Truth. It turns out that Truth is a lot different than we think it is. This is not a book for the dabbler or the faint of heart.