i really think the bahai should spend more time engaging mormons. that is because they both claim to have corrected Jesus and what He taught His apostles. they both claim their founders are the most recent communication of God to mankind. they both teach an eternal progression.
maybe if they could sort out their differences, it would then become fruitful to engage in discussion with people who believe Jesus taught His disciples definitively during their three years together; and, that the disciples meant what they taught us when they said they ate with and touched the resurrected body of Jesus Christ.
it is so absurd to think that the apostles did not experience the empty tomb and the physical body of Christ.
they would have had to have been outright lunatics to teach the physical resurrection if they had not experienced it.
God bless you, brother Eddie, and thank you for your suggestions.
. Here is the challenge faced by Baha’is. Wherever we live in the world, we meet people of different religions and their subsets, or sects. Each sect has its own interpretations and demands satisfaction on certain points of the theology to which they adhere. What satisfies the Jew does not satisfy the Christian. What satisfies the Christian does not satisfy the Muslim.
. Then further, all the schisms found in these major religions each demand their own proofs according to whatever traditions they have adopted or inherited from their forebears.
The Catholics have certain dogma, the Protestants, Baptists, Mormons, etc, etc, etc, etc each demand their answer.
. The Muslims say that after the Prophet Muhammad, there can be no other Messenger sent from God, for in the Quran He is referred to as the “Seal of the Prophets”. Yet they, too, await the coming of the Mahdi and the Return of Christ, but on their own conditions.
. The various Hindus and Buddhist sects also have their awaited prophecies to be fulfilled, some reasonable, and some absurd, to which they cling and demand an answer. The Zoroastrians await Shah Bahram, the Navajo await the Twins, the Toltecs their God, and on and on and on we go.
. Quite simply, Baha’is believe that Baha’u’llah is the Promised One of all Religion, and that: “When religion, shorn of its superstitions, traditions, and unintelligent dogmas, shows its conformity with science, then will there be a great unifying, cleansing force in the world which will sweep before it all wars, disagreements, discords and struggles–and then will mankind be united in the power of the Love of God.”
. Indeed, we have our conversations with Mormons, with whom we must tactfully deal with their imaginary beliefs, which are the product of the over-active mind of their founder, whom we do not regard as a prophet, but whose roots are still the Bible.
. We talk with the Hare Krsnas, who hold certain expectations of the coming of Krsna, and whose roots are the Bhagavad-Gita.
. We sit down with the Lakota in their Sweat Lodges and listen to them pray, and recount the stories of the White Buffalo Calf Woman, who you might say was the “Moses” of her people.
. We have feasts with the peoples of Pau Pau New Guinea, and Palau, and Tonga, each of whom have certain sacred traditions which are to be respected, but which, when interpreted only literally, might not make rational sense, but when interpreted spiritually, have wonderful meanings.
. The coming of the One Fold and the One Shepherd embraces the Jew and the Jain, the Christian and the Muslim, the Hindu and the Buddhist, the Sioux and the Hopi. These are the lions and the lambs which lie down together and drink from the same spring, and together say:
. "“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the temple of the God of Jacob . He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” Micah
