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> But do you understand why it seems weird?
I believe I answered this question on the other list Gilberto. Allow me
however to add that as we know God only through His Manifestation of
Himself; and that Point is the Person of the Manifestation, i.e. that
physical being is the Point of the Revelation of God.
"Were any of the all-embracing Manifestations of God to declare: "I am God,"
He, verily, speaketh the truth, and no doubt attacheth thereto. For it hath
been repeatedly demonstrated that through their Revelation, their attributes
and names, the Revelation of God, His names and His attributes, are made
manifest in the world. Thus, He hath revealed: "Those shafts were God's, not
Thine." And also He saith: "In truth, they who plighted fealty unto Thee,
really plighted that fealty unto God." (Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 54)
This point is alluded to in the Torah when God defines the relationship of
Moses to Aaron, which in turn defines the relationship to the Manifestation
of God (Moses in this case) to all mankind.
4:16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he
shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of
God. (King James Bible, Exodus)
> But even before Muhammad and the revelation of the Quran, Christianity
> already had a sophisticated theology which tried to bring together
> Jesus' humanity and divinity. How is the Bahai view any different from
> what Christians already teach about Jesus?
One must Gilberto, always distinguish between the theology presented by man
and the Revelation presented through the Manifestation.
Most discussions on various lists do not make this essential distinction,
causing hopeless confusion Consider the verse "This is my Son in Whom I am
well pleased". If that verse is from God, it could have come only out of
the blameless mouth of Jesus Himself; yet there is no such indication of
that. Out of the mouth of each Manifestation will be uttered the Words of
God at one time, and at another the words of the Man Himself. The Qur'an, I
believe, is the first Book to make that distinction very clear; and Muhammad
was meticulous in making the distincttion between hadith and Revelation.
Richard.
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