The Galilean Secret Book

Overall, this was a very good book. To my surprise, I enjoyed it and agreed with more of it than I expected to. I figured this would be a watered-down Davinci Code-ish kind of book, where the basic story of Jesus is changed so that it does not reconcile with the Bible. In the book, a letter written by Jesus to Mary Magdalene is discovered which sheds light on the true nature of their relationship and gives great insights into the true nature of God and love. My issue is that Jesus supposedly focused on the need to understand that God is both male and female, that to truly know God and understand love, we much each recognize the opposite sex within us to become whole so that we can fully understand ourselves; only then can we fully understand and love another person. The books also referred to an alternate interpretation of the creation of man that I've never, ever heard of before. Originally, God created Adam as both male and female in one body. He then later separated Adam into 2 people, one as male, one as female. That is why we become "one flesh," because we return to the union of male and female as one. In the midst of the questionable parts, there was a lot of good, more good than bad. Yet I am not quite sold on the book. It's just a bit too close to being "weird" in some parts. Like Davinci Code, it's a good, creative story, but it's hard for me to have the greatest story ever told altered in ways that make it different than the Bible.