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  1. CG Didymus

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    And the Bible is filled with stories of God's people going out and killing people. And God helps them win some of those battles. Then with others, because his people did something wrong, God helped the enemy win to teach them a lesson. And unlike that other Baha'i thread about accepting the...
  2. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Buddha: neither accepted nor rejected God Therefore, the Buddha’s view on the concept of God was neither to accept, nor reject the concept of a creator or creation. Even if he believed in these things himself, he viewed the answers to these questions as not necessary to achieving enlightenment...
  3. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Did Baha'u'llah say that the Buddha was a manifestation of God? Did the Buddha say he was a manifestation of God? Did any manifestation of God say that Buddha was a manifestation of God? The closest thing we have is that some Hindus believe the Buddha was one of the many incarnations of Vishnu...
  4. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Lots of Jews had to make that kind of choice. Convert to a religion that has them confess their sins to a priest in a cathedral filled with statues? Where the number one belief is the Jesus is God? Which was the better choice? Which was the right choice? To stay Jew or convert?
  5. CG Didymus

    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    Yes, we need to be positive. So, let's just go for it. Let's all disarm. Elect that World Tribunal, and see what happens. Like I said before... What could go wrong? Except going by what has happened in the past when a religion was in power, I'm "positive" things won't go very good.
  6. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Did you want to ask something else?
  7. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    My problem is with what Baha'is believe. If it's true then great. But is it true? Does it sound like all religions came from the same source? A one true God? To me, it sounds more like people invented their religions and their Gods.
  8. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Okay, the Scriptures contain many meanings. What about the literal meaning? And if interpreting verses is alright, then why complain about all the different sects? Going by what you believe all of them have a different, but correct, interpretation. And can we apply that to everything in the...
  9. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Which verses, in which Buddhist Scriptures does Buddha "establish" the Oneness of God? But then there's this... The Buddha was a Manifestation of God, like Christ, but His followers do not possess His authentic writings. Shoghi Effendi, The Compilation of Compilations vol. I, p. 21 If they...
  10. CG Didymus

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    But you know that what those other religions teach now is wrong? So, now you do know what the original message was, and that it soon became distorted? Again, we don't have the original teachings, so how do you know what was changed?
  11. CG Didymus

    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    But are the people that get elected to this World Tribunal really going to be all that virtuous? If they are in the least bit greedy or hungry for power or have any bad qualities, how's the decisions made by the World Tribunal going to be fair and just?
  12. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Baha'is tweak a little bit of everything. Any verse that has something miraculous in it, most Baha'is take as being symbolic. Like with healing a blind person or bringing Lazarus from the dead... Baha'is have told that the person was "spiritually" blind and was made to see with "spiritual" eyes...
  13. CG Didymus

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    To you... Is the Creation Story in Genesis a true story or is it fictional? How about the resurrection story? Is it literally true or is it fictional? If you say fictional, and what else can you say, how is a fictional religious story different than a myth? Even if it's a fictional story that...
  14. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    With the elephant metaphor the blind men couldn't see the whole elephant, but they did physically feel the elephant. With the invisible and unknowable God of the Baha'is, people are dependent on what the Baha'i Faith tells them about God. Then the Baha'i Faith tells people what was really...
  15. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Now this clears it up. That's going a long way back in this thread. But that's the answer. No, don't believe just anything those other religions tell me. But I should listen first to the Baha'is... They will tell me what is true and what is false in all those other religions. Then, accept...
  16. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Even with this OP... I could say, "Yeah, all religions are true. They all lead us to God and to heaven!" But where are the Baha'is? They say, "Well, we believe in their original teachings. But they screwed them up so bad nothing is left of those original, pure teachings." So, I ask, "Wait a...
  17. CG Didymus

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    They do? Who founded Hinduism? And I have seen quotes that make Adam and Noah manifestations, but let's go with just Abraham. What religion did he found? And what book and new laws did he bring? Then, when Moses came, what new religion did he found? And what book did he bring? And which laws...
  18. CG Didymus

    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    What's easier to grasp? That there is only one God that does everything? Or many spirit-beings, or Gods, that have different jobs. One controls the weather. One is in charge of fertility. One makes sure the Sun keeps doing it's thing. And then there's one main God keeping an eye on all the...
  19. CG Didymus

    What if we accepted each others Religion?

    Yes, I don't think they want to get labelled as radicals or protesters. One Baha'i was talking as if the people of the world should all get up and stop Russia from invading Ukraine. So, I asked why doesn't he and other Baha'is lead the way. They could stand in the roads blocking the tanks. I...
  20. CG Didymus

    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    So, if the Baha'i Faith didn't tell you to take those things symbolically and not literally, wouldn't you agree that they sound like pure made up myth? And because of science, some of those beliefs based on what the Bible says are shown to be untrue. And I'll bet the Baha'is agree. Like the...
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