Egg-zactly.
So there is no evidence, whatsoever, that your holy prophets did anything miraculous.
And therefore no evidence, whatosever, that your holy prophets are divine.
The very scientific explanations will only serve to show this: your holy prophets are men who write some very nice things.
I happened to read some things by Thomas Merton the other day. His writings are interesting spiritually.
I might put your holy prophets on the same page as Thomas Merton. Interesting spiritual teachings, but where they diverge from the Word of God is where we say, “Nope, not so much.”
And Thomas Merton, while being an astute spiritual thinker, like your holy prophets, is definitely NOT part of the Godhead.
Servant, please answer this question. Please tell us of extraordinary events attributed to Baha’u’llah that have been historically verified? Just one or two will do.
Thank you.
It is very late here in Australia, but I will briefly respond with a couple of examples:
(You can find several other examples in several books such as Nabils Narrative and The Revelation of Baha’u’llah)
Baha’u’llah performed many miracles! Some readers will discount them with a wave-of-a-hand, saying: ‘They are either fables, made-up stories, or done by the power of the Devil!’
That is what the Pharisees said Jesus did His miracles by; by the power of “Be’elzebub”: the “Prince of the Devils” (Mark 3:22).
When the Pharisees said to Jesus “Show us a miracle and we will believe!” He did none! However, when the common-people saw Him do miracles they went to the Pharisees and told them what they had seen with their own eyes. The Pharisss dismissed it as the ‘work of Satan’.
The Bab did many miracles! One that comes to mind is when He was at a banquet of a man named Ali Muhammad; an old man with an old barren wife. They had prayed for decades for children, but none ever came. They began to feal that God was not answering prayers; that He had abandomed them. When they heard of The Bab, that He declared He was the promised Imam Mahdi (“Rightly-Guided One”) they believed. They invited Him to their home for a banquet. As was custom, the men and women ate at separate tables; in separate rooms. Mirza Ali Muhammad told The Bab that his wife was barren, and that they had prayed to God for children but never had any. The Bab stopped eating, gave His plate to Mirza Ali Muhammad, and said, “Have her eat from My dish!” Mirza Ali Muhammad was startled, but took the plate to his wife and told her to eat from it (this was considered “unclean” but his wife obeyed). Soon she was pregnant with their first child.
The Bab did many more miracles, which are related in The Dawn Breakers and in New History of The Bab.
Baha’u’llah performed many supernatural acts. While in Iran there was a Shi’a Mulla (clergyman) named Muhammad Ali Nabi-i-Qa’in. He stayed with Baha’u’llah for a time, and “related the great miracles which he had, with his own eyes, see Baha’u’llah perform.” (Memorials of the Faithful, p.50)
Baha’u’llah raised a man from the dead. The man was Mirza Ja’far-i-Yazdi, known as one of the most loving and spiritual men among the Baha’is of Akka. While at that prison city he became very ill. Akka was a prison city and a fortress. It was extremely dirty and crowded. Sanitation and fresh running water was practically unknown in that city. The Muslims used to say, “A bird once flew over Akka, and it dropped dead!”
Mirza Ja’far got very sick, and a physician was summoned. Finally, Mirza Ja’fa stopped breathing. His heart stopped. He became cold. The physician pronounced him dead, and left. A Baha’i named Mirza Aqa Jan ran to the quarters of Baha’u’llah, in tears, saying that Mirza Ja’far was dead. Baha’u’llah replied:
“Go: chant the prayer of Ya Shari–O Thou, Healer–and Mirza Ja’fa will come alive.” (Memorials of the Faithful, p.157)
Mirza Aqa Jan went back to the apartment where the body of Mirza Ja’far lay, and he chanted a prayer to God named “O My Healer” and then Mirza Ja’far started to breath, and move, then he miraculously got up and began speaking and walking around! (ibid.).
'Abdu’l-Baha, the Successor, Secretary, and Eldest Son of Baha’u’llah, wrote:
“…If I wish to mention the supernatural acts of Baha’u’llah, they are numerous; they are acknowledged in the Orient even by some non-baha’is.” (Some Answered Questions 10:6)
“So also foreign peoples, and other sects who were not believers, attributed many wonderful things to Baha’u’llah. Some believed He was a saint, and some wrote treatises about Him. One of them, Siyyid Davudi, a Sunnite savant of Baghdad, wrote a short treatise in which he related certain supernatural acts of Baha’u’llah. Even now, in all parts of the East, there are some people who, though they do not believe in His Manifestation, nevertheless believe Him to be a saint and relate miracles attributed to Him.” (Some Answered Questions 9:19)
to tell us.
I take NO credit for this. I know who gets the Credit and its the Good Lord.