Yet my point stands, God leaves his creation to corruption, for death and he has no intention of fixing it. Ultimately this suggests one thing to me, that hte Bahai God considers death a good thing. Tell me, do you consider death a good thing? In all of its ramifications?
Baha’is consider the Will of God a good thing, whether we are to be physically dead or alive. He decides when we need to move onto the next realm of existence. That is not to say that were we to align our lives to His exhortations and teachings we cannot prolong our physical lives. Indeed, the Guardian of the Bahai Faith does say that were mankind to adhere to the principles revealed by Baha’u’llah, human life will be extended dramatically, but it will never come to a stage where physical existence and the laws of physics are abolished altogether, resulting in NO PHYSICAL DEATH. This goes against every principle of physical creation. We will die. But our true identity continues to pursue a life of supreme consciousness for eternity, in the form of a human soul…
Baha’u’llah indicates that just as the world of the womb is “contained” within this one, this world is similarly “contained” within the spiritual realm and as a result, souls in the spiritual realm can directly influence the hearts and minds of men still living in the physical realm.
It’s interesting that doormouse mentions angels, because this is one of my favourite Bahai quotations from Baha’u’llah:
Intone, O My servant, the verses of God that have been received by thee,
as intoned by them who have drawn nigh unto Him,
that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own soul,
and attract the hearts of all men. Whoso reciteth, in the privacy of his chamber,
the verses revealed by God, the scattering angels of the Almighty
shall scatter abroad the fragrance of the words uttered by his mouth,
and shall cause the heart of every righteous man to throb.
Though he may, at first, remain unaware of its effect, yet the virtue
of the grace vouchsafed unto him must needs sooner or later exercise
its influence upon his soul. Thus have the mysteries of the Revelation
of God been decreed by virtue of the Will of Him
Who is the Source of power and wisdom.
But my ultimate point has not been addressed that God leaves the world and the universe to revel in evil forever, God does not put everything to rights, death reigns forever and has not been defeated.
God most certainly does not leave the universe to revel in evil forever. He has provided tremendous guidance on how to overcome evil, both individually (through Abrahamic Revelations) and as a collective global society (through the Bahai Revelation) and this according to the Bahai Revelation is one of the clear and primary purposes of religion. Again, were we to adhere to His Will through His successive Revelations we would conquer spiritual death AS WELL AS bring about a glorious Kingdom of God on earth.
God is spirit and the true eternal realm where we belong is in His embrace as spiritual beings.
