That’s not a “god.” That’s just God.
We believe the Bahai are wrong in rejecting the Trinity and in regarding God’s revelation of himself in Jesus as something less than fully ultimate.
But you will not find that the Catholic Church, in any of its official utterances, suggests in any way that the Bahai worship some god other than the true God.
You may find poorly informed or fanatical Catholics who maintain this.
Edwin
Edwin I noted in your post your statement above
“We believe the Bahai are wrong in rejecting the Trinity …”
I’m unsure how familiar you are with the Baha’i view on the subject of “trinity” but there exists in my view a rather salient definition by Abdul-Baha the Interpreter of the Baha’i Faith found in the book Some Answered Questions and I’ll provide it here:
*"The epitome of the discourse is that the Reality of Christ was a clear mirror, and the Sun of Reality – that is to say, **the Essence of Oneness, with its infinite perfections and attributes – became visible in the mirror. The meaning is not that the Sun, which is the Essence of the Divinity, became divided and multiplied – for the Sun is one – but it appeared in the mirror. This is why Christ said, “The Father is in the Son,” meaning that the Sun is visible and manifest in this mirror.
The Holy Spirit is the Bounty of God which becomes visible and evident in the Reality of Christ. ****The Sonship station is the heart of Christ, and the Holy Spirit is the station of the spirit of Christ. **Hence it has become certain and proved that the Essence of Divinity is absolutely unique and has no equal, no likeness, no equivalent.
This is the signification of the Three Persons of the Trinity. If it were otherwise, the foundations of the Religion of God would rest upon an illogical proposition which the mind could never conceive, and how can the mind be forced to believe a thing which it cannot conceive? A thing cannot be grasped by the intelligence except when it is clothed in an intelligible form; otherwise, it is but an effort of the imagination.
It has now become clear, from this explanation, what is the meaning of the Three Persons of the Trinity. The Oneness of God is also proved." *
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~ Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 113
*But as to the question of the Trinity: Know, O advancer unto God, that in each one of the cycles wherein the Lights have shone forth upon the horizons, and the Forgiving Lord hath revealed Himself on Mount Paran, or Mount Sinai, or Mount Seir, **there are necessarily three things, the Giver of the Grace, the Grace, and the Recipient of the Grace: the Source of the Effulgence, the Effulgence, and the Recipient of the Effulgence; the Illuminator, the Illumination, and the Illuminated. *
Look at the Mosaic cycle – the Lord and Moses, and the Fire the intermediary; and in the Messianic cycle, the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost and the intermediary; and in the Muhammadan cycle, the Lord and the Apostle, and Gabriel the intermediary. Look at the sun and its rays, and the heat which results from its rays; the rays and the heat are but two effects of the sun, but inseparable from it and sent out from it; yet is the sun one in its essence, unique in its real identity, single in its attributes, nor can anything possibly resemble it. Such is the essence of the truth concerning the Unity, the real doctrine of the Oneness, the undiluted reality as to the divine Sanctity.
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(Compilations, Baha'i Scriptures, p. 448)
So while our view may be different from many Christians on the subject I’m unsure if you would term it a “rejection” of the trinity.
- Art
