I think I see what you are saying. The founders of the Faith grew up in Shi'a society. But they claimed to bring a new revelation. Would you say that Christianity was a Jewish sect? Jesus grew up in Jewish society and claimed to bring a new revelation, much the same way that the Bab and Baha'u'llah claim to bring a new revelation.
Wolfgang
ermmm no...
firstly i think we should destinquish between chrisitanity and the religion of Isa/Yehoshua (PBUH) as there is vast difference.. By religion i mean the name of the followers because obviously they are muslims =P
but i mean we should seperate pauline from ebionite
which are you arguing?
In my eyes Christianity IS a judaic sect that got far too out of hand..
(1) no where in the torah is the son of god coming.. Only the lineage of david.
(2) "think not that i come to destroy the law" Matthew 5:17/19
(3) Christianity in its current form didnt happen till paul thusly
(4) Making it vastly different to babism and to Baha'u'llah who where respectively self proclaimed prophets and a self procalimed DEVINE prophet.
(5) Baha'u'llah called himself a reincarnate of Isa ( no other prophet has said something of this scale and we know isa's second coming isnt true)
(6) isa denied divinity unlike Baha'u'llah (we can use either quran or injeel to prove this)
(7) Jesus never said he brought new revalation only was he giving interpreation to old law
(8) Baha'u'llah's prophecy was suspect as he was a babi follower who was alive at the time he was.. he knew what he said would bring. whilst Yehoshua was a rabbi
(9) The quran is a midquel by allah (swt) putting right the events which have been lost.
so whatever your stance on seal of the prophets why is there need for new faith when allah (swt) has proven the quran will be and has been untouched?