-----Original Message-----
From: David Friedman
... To start with, David, a Manifestation of God, commits adultery, ...
Dear David,
I think the idea that David was a Manifestation of God is based on a
misunderstanding of the Baha'i Writings.
Similarly, the Imams of the Muhammadan Revelation were not Manifestations of
God, even though they spoke words which seemed to imply that they were
Manifestations of God.
Similarly, although the Bab pronounced Mulla Husayn to be Muhammad, the
Messenger of God, His meaning was *not* that Mulla Husayn was a
Manifestation of God.
Below is a quote from Baha'u'llah which bears on this topic.
--- Vaughn
Consider thou the Revelation of the Point of the Bayan - exalted is His
glory. He pronounced the First One to believe in Him to be Muhammad, the
Messenger of God. Doth it beseem a man to dispute with Him by saying that
this man is from Persia, the Other from Arabia, or this one was called
Husayn while the Other bore the name of Muhammad? Nay, I swear by God's
holy Being, the Exalted, the Most Great. Surely no man of intelligence and
insight would ever pay attention unto limitations or names, but rather unto
that with which Muhammad was invested, which was none other than the Cause
of God. Such a man of insight would likewise consider Husayn and the
position he occupied in the Cause of God, the Omnipotent, the Exalted, the
Knowing, the Wise. And since the First One to believe in God in the
Dispensation of the Bayan was invested with command similar to that with
which Muhammad, the Messenger of God, was invested, therefore the Bab
pronounced him to be the latter, namely His return and resurrection. This
station is sanctified from every limitation or name, and naught can be seen
therein but God, the One, the Peerless, the All-Knowing.
Know thou moreover that in the Day of Revelation were He to pronounce
one of the leaves to be the manifestation of all His excellent titles, unto
no one is given the right to utter why or wherefore, and should one do so he
would be regarded as a disbeliever in God and be numbered with such as have
repudiated His Truth.
(Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Pages: 184-185)
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