Bahaullah and those who follow him are wrong about many things related to the spiritual life. that is one good reason for knowing Bahaullah was not a saint in the RC definition of the word.
first and foremost, they are wrong about the Holy Trinity that was revealed to us by Jesus. Jesus taught us that there were three Divine Persons who shared the Divine Nature completely with each other. of course, anyone can go around denying or misstating what Jesus taught. it has been happening for over 1,900 hundred years. but, we who put our faith in Jesus know that Jesus intended for His teachings to be available to all future generations through the mechanism, doctrine, principle of apostolic succession. we know Jesus spent three years specifically teaching and training the twelve for their mission of transmitting the Gospel of Jesus Christ. other people can urge us to put our faith in someone besides Jesus. the bahai do it. the muslims do it. the Mormons do it. and, while the do it they simultaneously tell everyone, oh no, we do not reject Jesus. we honor Jesus. such words ring completely hollow to people who have put their faith in Jesus because they (we) need nothing else besides Jesus to gain eternal life. others, the bahai, the muslims, the Mormons, for example, clearly do not understand what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is all about. for their information, although I doubt it will penetrate their blind faith, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is about the salvation of souls from their enslavement to sin and separation from their Creator. that is it. all of this other stuff is peripheral to the true mission of Jesus Christ, our salvation from enslavement to sin and the pains of eternal death due to us because of our sinfulness. because Jesus has given us this salvation, there is simply no reason for us to believe that anyone else is going to provide something more because what could be more than freedom from sin and eternal life?
second and equally important, they are wrong about the Divinity of Jesus Christ. Jesus is God, now and forever. Jesus is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, from eternity to eternity. now, the bahai, the muslims, the Mormons and the many others who wish to supplant the Incarnate Word in our hearts with something other than Jesus and salvation, they do understand that if they end up believing Jesus is God, their lives will change irrevocably because their faith will demand a response unique and unequivocal, it will demand either embracing the Incarnate Word or knowingly working against the Incarnate Word. what they may not understand is that, by faith in Jesus, they will also be freed from their enslavement to sin and become heirs to eternal life.
for those who might read the words of the bahai sympathetically, I encourage you to keep in forefront of your minds as you encounter and engage the bahai that, unequivocally, the bahai reject the RCC’s doctrines of both the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. both of these teachings, the apostles received directly from Jesus Himself. to reject the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation are to reject Jesus and to reject God. on a note of literary analysis you might notice that in my last sentence before this one, I wrote to reject Jesus and to reject God. for a bahai, this phrasing indicates that I intend to teach that Jesus and God do not have the same Divine Nature, but nothing could be farther from the truth. I mention this to emphasize that the written word demands interpretation. it is very rarely, if ever, possible to accept the written word on its face value. always, the written word must be understood according to the author’s intent. the bahai who post here, quite often, have no idea of the author’s intent when they cite the writers of the new testament. this is because they have so little knowledge of what the apostles and their successors teach. we tell them over and over that Jesus taught the apostles far more than they could ever write down. we tell them that the words of the new testament were given to us as a tool to enhance the Gospel of the Lord that is always, first and foremost, transmitted orally.
before leaving, I want to return to the most important theme of this and most of my other posts. that is, what the bahai teach and believe is, for the most part, diametrically opposed to what the successors to the apostles teach and believe..
