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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_House_of_Worship
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_text
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_founders_of_religious_traditions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestation_of_God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith_and_the_unity_of_religion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_revelation_(Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD)
Here's the story that this topic is based on below.
http://bahaitheway.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
I have included at the top relevant Wikipedia articles. It also brings up
relevant topics: Are Baha'i House of Worship really non-denominational or
particularly Baha'i? If the reading of scriptures / religious texts is soposed
to nondenominational, why limit them to only Bahai approved religious
traditions? How does one know if any given individual is a Manifestation? What
are the criteria? How does one validate or falsify if one has any one of the
criteria if not all of them? (This means just saying that someone doesn't meet
the criteria without explaining why doesn't mean one doesn't meet the criteria,
it means you rigged the test so that anyone and everyone would fail other that
the enumerated list of Manifestations that Baha'i use.) Does the unity of
religion mean unity of religion or unity of Bahai authorized list of a dozen or
so religious tradtions and only these?
Look at the lists of religions and spiritual traditions and their founders.
Then, look at the Manifestations of God page. Look at the page of each
Manifestation of God and the progressive revelation page. Now, look back to the
founders page. See how only some founders are highlighted and most are not? How
do the religions with unhighlighted founders fit into unity of religion? Is
unity of religion limited to religions with the highlighted founders?
I looked and here were my results:
Abraham (Abrahamic religions is general)
Moses (Judaism and Samaritanism) Tanakh or Torah
Zarathustra/Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism) Avesta
Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha (Buddhism) Buddhist texts
Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah/Christ (Christianity) Bible
Muhammad (Islam) Quran
Bahaullah (Bahai Faith) Baha'i texts
Bab (Babism/Babiism or Bayanism/Bayaniism) Babi/Bayani texts
Note: Religious founders are listed by their birth rather than when they
founded their religions. Also, some Manifestations like Krishna weren't listed
as founding a religion.
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