Hello PeaceBeWithU, I will try to address your concerns below
It is troublesome when a person considers Truth to be relative. Realitydoes not change from one day to the next. God does not change from one day to the next, nor does the message that Christ taught. Truth is not relative. Truth is reality.
Truth is not relative. Reality is reality. We cannot change that. But what is relative is** how we learn about reality**, how it is taught to us, whether it is scientific education in a school or spiritual education in a religion. The means by which we have evolved physically and spiritually is empirically observable, and that is solely due to the “gradual” educational methods employed by God.
Exactly, and reality does not change. The earth was never flat. The reality is that the world was always the shape it is now. The fact that people didn’t know it back then does not change the fact that it was. Therefore Truth is not relative. Truth remains Truth, despite the opinions of people.
Yes, you are correct, but again, as humans we are not able to know ALL TRUTH from the moment we are born. Humanity is no different. It is the reason why Moses and all the Old Testament Prophets came to earth. God, the Father of all nurtures His children in a loving and wise manner. Baha’is consider humanity currently to be in its adolescence, approaching maturity. The guidance for the maturation of the human race has now been given to mankind through Baha’u’llah’s Revelation.
Again, Truth is not relative to human understanding. The world never was flat. The reality of the shape of the earth never changed. Human ignorance of the truth didn’t make the truth any less of a reality. We didn’t create an ‘advanced truth’ we simply gained a greater understanding of a truth that was there the entire time. The earth did not change. The truth did not change.
All we have dear friend, is OUR reality. Tomorrow a new reality becomes open to us. It is called the living Word of God because every day, as a new reality beckons we are born again into a new understanding of the Word.
I’ve taken the liberty to highlight from your post what I have been trying to convey to you the entire time.
The other thing you need to be aware of is that some Truths do change from Revelation to Revelation, such as circumcision, divorce laws, etc etc. Why do you think that is?
As far as the triune God, it is the same as the above. Realizing an error and then correcting it does not mean that the truth changed, it simply means you realized a truth that was there the entire time.
So you are basically saying that the Rabbinic Order misinterpreted the Torah for all that time??
If that is what you are saying then how do you know Christian interpretation is true?
God wouldn’t give us contradictory truths. That’s what I was saying. You cannot say in the same breath that Christ is One with God, and then at the same time say that Christ is something lesser than God, equal to Moses, Buddah etc. No matter what ‘perspective’ you look through there is a contradiction there because TRUTH does not hinge on perspective. It is a reality, whether a million people believe it or not. The world was round even when we thought it flat. Reality didn’t change. Christ is God, despite the opinions of a multitude of people. The reality doesn’t change. People’s ACCEPTANCE of reality is the only thing that changes.
So we establish that God does not reveal contradictory Truths (except sometimes such as you should be circumcised, you should not be circumcised. The Law is life (Torah), the Law is a ministry of death (2Cor 3:7) ), yet we also establish that from the perspective of a Rabbi, Christianity contradicts Judaism. So where do we turn to?
Why does the Truth keep changing?
Beating head against a wall Truth does not have a perspective. It simply is. Our fallibility as human beings doesn’t affect the truth one single iota. Reality doesn’t hinge on our understanding, and thank God for that!
Dear friend, please don’t be frustrated. I am simply presenting a perspective for you to consider. I have studied your perspective for years, and I can categorically say that I have both perspectives (the Baha’i one and the Christian one) thoroughly researched using intellect, prayer and meditation, and application to my life. The conclusions I have made are what I am writing here
I urge you to open your horizons
I’m trying to wrap my head around this statement. What you are saying is that, yes, indeed Moses had the same divinity as Jesus, which means Moses was ‘one with God’ but he chose to NOT reveal that fact because the people of his time wouldn’t understand that?
Not because they could not understand necessarily, although that may be the case, but its because God chose, in His infinite wisdom not to reveal it.
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