Ask me anything about the Baha'i Faith

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I will answer (hopefully) these questions tomorrow more in depth, as it is exceedingly late in the evening.
I would love to engage in further discussion instead of Q&A, although perhaps on another platform, because this one is for Catholic obviously.
 
Your zeal is commendable, however I’m not sure you’re communicating in a way that’s appropriate for this particular forum. If you could frame your objections to the OP’s beliefs in a less confrontational way (such as turning those statements into questions) I think you’ll avoid backlash while also contributing to the discussion. Otherwise it appears as rather blatant proselytizing, which only serves to dissuade conversation and mutual understanding.
 
Non-Religion section is for talking about other religions and comparing and contrasting them, but not for shoving our religion down the throats of other members. Again, if they’re interested in converting, they have the entire forum to ask questions and explore.

If the moderators agreed with you, the Judaism thread would not have been closed. This is their playground, their rules.
 
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I’m not trying to be disrespectful or rude here, I’m trying to spread the Gospel.
 
They will be interested in converting when we show them the truth.
 
We we understand that. It’s simply your approach that’s coming across as a bit abrasive, which I’m sure is not your intention. Perhaps rather than saying “you’re wrong” you could ask “why do you think your right?”
 
I haven’t meant to start a row on here… I merely wanted to do this because so often when I have questions for Catholics they don’t understand where I’m coming from, so I wanted to shed some light on my faith.
 
Many of us would welcome the opportunity to understand your convictions. As a former Catholic yourself I know I’d be interested in what motivated your transition.
 
I do commend your intentions, really I do. Please understand that I’m not trying to attack you. I just happen to feel that this isn’t the time or place, but since you disagree there’s nothing more I can say.

@devinrose don’t feel bad. A lot of people come here from a lot of different backgrounds and ways of thought and we don’t always agree on how to handle things. Not your fault, human nature 🙂
 
Don’t feel bad, OP! This thread is really interesting and I’ve already learned a lot from it so thank you for starting it. The other posters are right, this is not the thread for trying to convert others and the continuation of doing so is quite disrespectful in my opinion.
 
Ok maybe I came off as a little too harsh. I did not mean to. I’m sorry.
 
Hi OP. Thanks for starting this thread and sorry if this has been asked already, also sorry if my understanding is simply muddy.

How do you deal with conflicting revelations?
How do you decide which aspects have been muddled up?
How do you view the Koran, Bible, etc?
Do you guys have some sort of equivalent of weekly worship?
Do you pray?
What are your beliefs on the afterlife?

Cheers 🙂
 
In “Mere Christianity”, C.S. Lewis is quoted as saying:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

How does the Baha’i Faith reconcile this polarising view of Jesus Christ amongst differing faith types through the lens of progressive revelation?

Thank you. 😊
 
The background is Islamic, and of course Christian and Jewish beyond that, since Islam recognizes Christ and the Old Testament prophets as previous revelations
 
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The Baha’i Faith is a man made religion which inherited much of its problems through another man made religion known as Islam.
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I do not agree that either Islam or Baha’i Faith are not legitimate religions.
Islam was given by YHWH to the Children of Ishmael so that they could have monotheism and the Law. Mirzah Husayn Ali was sent as the messiah of Islam to reform its teachings an to indicate our future way which is a world government. MIrzah wrote some amazing things for a Muslim to say not the least of which is that the Christian Gospels stand correct as written.
The issues between Christianity and Baha’i Faith stem from some unfortunate writings made by Baha’Ullah’s son, Abdul’Baha. In order to make the new religion appealing to Europe’s rational intelligentsia, he postulated that Jesus’ miracles did not physically happen, but were really just spiritual allegories and the same for His resurrection. Baha’is are still saddled with these erroneous beliefs and may actually participate in searching for Jesus’ buried corpse around Jerusalem.
 
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