I think regardless of the history of this faith and actions taken by its members should not affect the overall message it offers. I think it is ok to believe in the message it offers without subscribing to it 100%. By this I mean, what's wrong with believing what Bab said and saw; we are all one people and one religion under one God. This is true. It doesn't matter if you are a professing Bahai, Christian, Muslim or whatever. Whether people want to believe it or not we are one. The theme of Bahai is very beautiful and truthful. I believe in certain principles of Christianity Judaism and Islam but I don't practice any of them alone. Ilook for what I like and what speaks to me and leave the rest.
Postmaster, I think you are getting overworked about the alcohol thing. To say a religion would never work because the west can't stop drinking is absurd. And to say that God wouldn't orchestrate it like this because people drink is also absurd. Look at what Jesus preached and what Paul preached. Resurrection of the dead, body and blood of Christ etc. Do you think these were acceptable notions in those days? They still aren't today. The Jews were repulsed by blood and Paul ran around talking about the blood of Christ. according to Christians we have the messiah that the Jews missed when everything they say he did as a messiah ran contrary to the jewish belief in a messiah. No wonder they didn't follow.
Don't throw away the beaby with the bathwater.
Postmaster, I think you are getting overworked about the alcohol thing. To say a religion would never work because the west can't stop drinking is absurd. And to say that God wouldn't orchestrate it like this because people drink is also absurd. Look at what Jesus preached and what Paul preached. Resurrection of the dead, body and blood of Christ etc. Do you think these were acceptable notions in those days? They still aren't today. The Jews were repulsed by blood and Paul ran around talking about the blood of Christ. according to Christians we have the messiah that the Jews missed when everything they say he did as a messiah ran contrary to the jewish belief in a messiah. No wonder they didn't follow.
Don't throw away the beaby with the bathwater.
.. But you see one of his faults in my view was the way he spoke about God, so distantly, you see, the normal person does not use all his energy to establish a great faith, maybe the thoughts of a normal man are more potent because they are personal, his mistake was his view on God, he talks of God distantly, Jesus Christ taught me that God was closer and more person someone I can touch. The Baha’i View of God is almost Islamic more distant, the limited miracles documented, shows me something not as great, even Muhammad was limited in this sense compard to Christ. God is far greater then that, the founder of a true faith would have to literally be a son of God. And I know I've once again turned opinionated, I apologises for this, Christ did not need to use energy to give out his word, he was the energy and he came to perform a mission, hense he was called Christ and everything that was writen about him, tells us he performed Godly miracles and even if these miracles were the creation of man, one would question how a lie could create the largest relgion this world has ever had and put the whole question of God back into perspective.