Eagle Watch asked: Then where is Jesus’ Body?
Maybe buried in Jerusalem somewhere. Why do you think the Jewish archeologists are tearing up the Old City? If it was so important Bahá ‘u’ lláh would have said where it was, but, “the flesh profiteth nothing.” “Blessed are those who believe and have not seen.”
Eagle Watch asked: May be you don’t even know Jesus Christ has appeared not only to the early disciples but to many through all these milleneums in person and confirming the Gospel the Bible speaks is correct. So he is a real experience to us Christians not a myth.
**Of course, He is a real experience and a living Presence. I have dreamed of Him myself, thank God, and hope to be with Him forever, and my father was so moved by a dream of Him, after visiting the Holy Land, it changed his life. **
Friend Planten said: Ummat Wusta is not an intermediate nation in time. It is an even based middle way nation in the matters of beliefs. It is not inclined to one side, to one extreme.
Your interpretation of that verse in Qur’an 2:143 is typical of the Arab Muslim “street,” which is not firmly grounded in divine interpretation. There are extremists such as the world has never seen!
You should remember another verse. “None knoweth the interpretation thereof except God and they that are firmly grounded in knowledge.” [3:7]
Who is better grounded in knowledge than the Ruler of the Day of Reckoning?
I believe that is Baha’u’llah, and He says it is a community “intermediate” between two others. The way He says it is wonderful to me:
If Prophethood has been sealed with Him, how is the Prophet’s nation said to be intermediate amongst the nations? In this wise ascertain the limit of their cognizance…” ~Bahá’u’lláh, (Surih of Patience, provisional translation)
i personally have thought the soul of Jesus immediately returned to God at death, like everyone else. But the Spirit of His Faith is still working in the world. This began three days after the crucifixion, when the Christians became excited and woke up. The Body of the Church began teaching boldly… i hope this answers your question:
'Abdu’l-Baha said: **Observe that it is said, “The Son of man is in heaven,” (John 3:13) while at that time Christ was on earth. Notice also that it is said that Christ came from heaven, though He came from the womb of Mary, and His body was born of Mary. It is clear, then, that when it is said that the Son of man is come from heaven, this has not an outward but an inward signification; it is a spiritual, not a material, fact. The meaning is that though, apparently, Christ was born from the womb of Mary, in reality He came from heaven, from the center of the Sun of Reality, from the Divine World, and the Spiritual Kingdom.
And as it has become evident that Christ came from the spiritual heaven of the Divine Kingdom, therefore, His disappearance under the earth for three days has an inner signification and is not an outward fact.
In the same way, His resurrection from the interior of the earth is also symbolical;
it is a spiritual and divine fact, and not material; and likewise His ascension to heaven is a spiritual and not material ascension. **( Some Answered Questions, p. 103)
Therefore this Baha’is understanding is that early subjective spiritual visions of His presence were recorded, because their impact on the hearts was no less real, or even more real than the world of mammon. Even if His body was seen and physically felt, it doesn’t help my spirit. His love and teachings do. If this is a bad lecture, sue me!
