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    Islamic concept of Mahdi/Jesus/Messiah

    No matter how many times people restate what they think are the respective roles of the promised Mahdi and "Jesus" according to Islam (outside of the Quran) it is never clearly stated exactly WHY Jesus is involved with the Mahdi at all when the Mahdi presumably does everything like a single...
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    It is not unlike all groups claiming universal application like Freemasonry.
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    Even those who respect one another's religions understand that a claim that all religions are one is ridiculous. Either the Hebrew bible is true and its commandments are true for Jews or they are not. According to Christianity the laws of the Hebrew Bible are not obligatory anymore. Either...
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    I am aware of differences, but also of similarities, including centralized ideological direction from a specific body of authority as I mentioned. Beyond that I still cannot understand exactly what mainstream Muslims understand to be the messianic role of Jesus together with the Mahdi messiah...
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    Sure, just like there is plenty of opposition online to the Witnesses and Mormons. What I was trying to point out was that the neo-Messianic expectations of the Bahais resembles that of the Mormon restorationism of the Book of Mormon and the expectations of the Witnesses that arose in the 1840s...
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    The more I read about Baha'ism the more it seems to bear a resemblance to the LDS and Jehovah's Witnesses as well as to the Freemasons.
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    Were the Bab and Baha'ullah originally Shia Muslims or not? Was the promised one identified by the Bab based in Shia Islam or not? I KNOW it is no longer part of Shia Islam. I was referring to its beginnings and roots.
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    Islamic concept of Mahdi/Jesus/Messiah

    What happened to the discussion of the OP regarding the relative roles of Mahdi, Jesus, Qaim versus Messiah?
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    What is the difference between the Mahdi and the Qaim as messiah alongside Jesus?
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    Islamic concept of Mahdi/Jesus/Messiah

    I don't see how this specifies the role of the Mahdi Messiah figure versus Jesus. As I said, no Muslim I have asked could explain it to me....
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    So these Shiites didn't have a great disappointment because the Bab imagined he was the fulfillment of the Shi'ite expectations. It was therefore only Baha'ullah who changed the religion. But what was it about the Bab that alienated the regime? Simply that he was a renegade seeking to overthrow...
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    Easy comparison of forms of Buddhism?

    I find it interesting that it is impossible here to engage in substantive intellectual debate, and that the first choice seems to be sarcasm and avoidance?
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    Why am I getting the impression from what I am reading online about Baha'ism that essentially it is a one-world society along the lines of the Freemasons with a middle eastern flavor??
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    Sorry, I meant William Miller, yes. Is there evidence of some connection to the Adventists by the Bab and then Baha'ullah besides membership in the Freemasons?
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    So there were no social circumstances involved but merely numerical calculations not unlike the calculations in the same period of people liked Charles Taze Russell in 1843-44?
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    Emergence of Bahai'ism

    So how did mainstream Shiites waiting for the Promised Mahdi end up as advocates of a new religion headed by the Bab, Siyyid `Alí Muhammad Shírází?? Or was a he just a regular Shiite, but a renegade one?
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    Easy comparison of forms of Buddhism?

    Karma and rebirth ARE metaphysical because they cannot be proven empirically and must rely on faith for acceptance. This is essentially a religious concept. However, beyond that we still need to know WHY the world is the way it is and WHO made it this way together with all the 4 Noble Paths...
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    Easy comparison of forms of Buddhism?

    Luis, this is not an idle issue. This is an important metaphysical issue because rebirth, karma and nirvana are metaphysical realities and it is only logical that someone would ask Buddha what is the source of these metaphysical realities along with the existence of man and his free will to...
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    Easy comparison of forms of Buddhism?

    Could someone tell me whether Buddhist tradition ever cited Gautama Siddharta as explaining WHY mankind is in the condition of Dukka in the first place? WHO put us there and WHY? What is the purpose of coming down here, facing the endless cycle and either being aware or unaware of the need for...
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    Islamic concept of Mahdi/Jesus/Messiah

    I still don't think we have gotten any doctrinal clarity in Islam about the exact role of the Mahdi and Jesus at the time of apocalypse or whatever. Both under Shia and Sunni doctrine. Is there any clear clarification about this?
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