> A Rabbi is calling for Muslims and Christians to revise the Koran
> and the
> New Testament, excising the passages that preach "ill-will towards
> others".Dr Jonathan Romain, the Rabbi of Maidenhead Synagogue,
> says that Jewish
> scholars should also delete some verses from the Hebrew bible.**
<snip>
> > ** O ye that dwell on earth! The distinguishing feature that
> marketh the
> preeminent character of this Supreme Revelation consisteth in that
> We have,
> on the one hand, blotted out from the pages of God's holy Book
> whatsoeverhath been the cause of strife, of malice and mischief
> amongst the children
> of men, and have, on the other, laid down the essential
> prerequisites of
> concord, of understanding, of complete and enduring unity. Well
> is it with
> them that keep My statutes.
>
> (Baha'u'llah: Gleanings, Page: 97)
Khazeh,
I'm not sure interpolating holy texts is exactly what Baha'u'llah had
in mind. :-)
warmest, Susan
Dear Susan
I was not talking about "interpolation".
Rather:
**Among the utterances that foreshadow a new Law and a new Revelation are
the passages in the "Prayer of Nudbih": "Where is He Who is preserved to
renew the ordinances and laws? Where is He Who hath the authority to
transform the Faith and the followers thereof?" He hath, likewise, revealed
in the Ziyarat: "Peace be upon the Truth made new."
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 239)
These concluding years of His (the Bab's) earthly life will go down in
history as the time when the new Dispensation attained its full stature,
when the claim of its Founder was fully and publicly asserted, when its laws
were formulated, when the Covenant of its Author was firmly established,
when its independence was proclaimed, and when the heroism of its champions
blazed forth in immortal glory. For it was during these intensely dramatic,
fate-laden years that the full implications of the station of the Báb were
disclosed to His disciples, and formally announced by Him in the capital of
Adhirbayjan, in the presence of the Heir to the Throne; that the Persian
Bayan, the repository of the laws ordained by the Báb, was revealed; that
the time and character of the Dispensation of "the One Whom God will make
manifest" were unmistakably determined; that the Conference of Badasht
proclaimed the annulment of the old order; and that the great conflagrations
of Mazindaran, of Nayriz and of Zanjan were kindled
(Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 17)
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