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I don't believe in such an extreme relativity of truth. Individual investigation of the truth does have a subjective element to it but there are objective standards as well. I don't believe that truth is just whatever feels good to you. There are many facets to truth, many ways to approach...

The Baha'i Faith isn't pacifist, either. It provides that if one nation attacks another, all other nations should subdue that nation and remove that government that started the war. If a Baha'i is drafted by a nation, they are not to take part in killing soldiers if they are allowed by the...

Thanks, Arthra, for answering those questions so well. I hadn't been to this thread until now.

I hadn't seen that before. I thought that all references to the successorship of Ali were in Shi'a hadith

I don't think that Jesus had to say that. Why can't people understand the teachings for themselves? The disciples understood Christ the best of those who were His followers since they were in constant contact with Him, but that doesn't mean that they had a monopoly on truth.

Baha'is believe that humans have a divine nature, but the divine nature of Manifestations is of a higher order, one we do not have. We can never be perfect though the soul lives forever, but we are always progressing, the spiritual attainments are infinite. Your idea of Trinity is interesting...

The leadership at least of these covenant-breakers knew they were going against the covenant but they did it anyway. In the end it doesn't matter what their followers believe about their group, when the evidence is clear to any fair person that their covenant-breaker leadership was wrong. They...

Like I said, these groups may feel that they are legitimate successors, but there is nothing explicit from the founder of the religion in writing that establishes this. Christ made a statement to Peter that on this rock I will build my church, but that partly refers to the faith that Peter had...

Ok, I went to the thread and responded to what Wil said early on. I don't have time to watch those videos. These are not following the explicit covenant. There is only one Baha'i Faith that has valid leadership according to the covenant. All of the Baha'is are entitled to believe what they want...

Ok, I understand. I just see the Catholic Church as just one Christian organization among many. I don't think there should be such divisions in a religion. I think really there should just be Christianity with each person free to form their own understanding of Christianity.

I believe that Christ is the Image of God, I agree with that. But how does Unity view the trinity? Is Christ an aspect of God, or a perfect reflection of God? I believe that Christ is a perfect reflection of God. Also I believe there have been other perfect reflections of God, what Baha'is call...

Here's the history of the Qur'an according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quran Some scholars since the 1970s have apparently questioned everything. I think they go to far, I had not heard their version before now. I believe the version that the Qur'an was collected...

Never mind, I looked up Thelema, I consider it weird: Thelema (/θəˈliːmə/) is a social or spiritual philosophy derived from Western esotericism. The word thelema is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun θέλημα (pronounced [θélɛ:ma]), "will", from the verb θέλω (ethélō): "to will...

I find that very interesting. I never knew that about you before. I'm glad you think for yourself, but that's been obvious anyway before this. I don't know what you mean though by the whole is more than the sum of the parts in this context. What is Thelema, Cino mentioned this. I never heard of...

I think you're misinformed. All of it originally came from Muhammad. It was written down in unorthodox materials and/or memorized. It was a caliph that directed the compilation of the Qur'an from those that had memorized it. I think there were a few differences from the memorizers, but the...

I've never heard of Thelema, I consider Scientology to be a con game to get money started by a science-fiction writer. It may help some people, but for some people it has been a nightmare. There were very few Baha'is to translate for early. Early American Baha'is didn't come about until the...

Scripture comes first, though in some cases it is oral scripture. In my religion scripture was written down right away. In the case of Islam it was not collected until a couple of decades later, but before that it was written down on various things and memorized, so what we have is very close to...

He was a child that looked at me as if He could see in me. I just knew it was Paul. As a sign of this he didn't have a head as it had been cut off by the Romans. But that wasn't the total reason. I knew he was Paul just like I knew the child was the Bab.

Yes, that's right on that occasion.

I'm not sure what you mean, but in a dream the Bab, the forerunner of Baha'u'llah told me that I was going to be married soon. I asked Him when and He said on Wednesday. I understood that to mean on a Wednesday. A few months later in 1982 I started writing to a Baha'i woman from 1500 miles away...