It's all interesting to me but oh so complicated. Baha'is needed a Divine messenger from Hinduism, so they picked Krishna. But they didn't need that person to be an incarnation of one of the Gods, and they didn't need him to be teaching reincarnation. So, those things they explain away. They also had no use for any of the previous incarnations of Vishnu. And they didn't have any use for any of the other sects of Hinduism. And, actually, I don't know if they have any use for any of the various Hindu Scriptures.
All they needed was a man to make into one of the many manifestations sent by the Abrahamic God... But nothing else. Yes, it's all very interesting to me
You say that Baha'is need certain things but we don't. All of the older religions have been corrupted by man and we don't have any accurate history of the Manifestations of God or the religions that were established in their name. Baha'is don't need to explain away what is not accurate.
Baha'is do not need any of the things you say we need. We only need Baha'u'llah, who is the founder of our Faith.
Although Baha'is did not need any of the past Manifestations, God sent them to bring a message and complete a mission.
Who all these Manifestations were and what they did is all conjecture and it cannot be known unless Baha'u'llah wrote about them.
Why do you continue to talk about these older religions? The have no bearing on the Baha'i Faith. I never hear any Baha'is talk about them because they are not part of the Baha'i Faith. Moreover, Baha'u'llah instructed us to turn towards Baha'u'llah and what He revealed in the first sentence of the following passage.
“This is the Day when the loved ones of God should keep their eyes directed towards His Manifestation, and fasten them upon whatsoever that Manifestation may be pleased to reveal. Certain traditions of bygone ages rest on no foundations whatever, while the notions entertained by past generations, and which they have recorded in their books, have, for the most part, been influenced by the desires of a corrupt inclination. Thou dost witness how most of the commentaries and interpretations of the words of God, now current amongst men, are devoid of truth. Their falsity hath, in some cases, been exposed when the intervening veils were rent asunder.”
Gleanings, p. 171-172
“Our purpose is to show that should the loved ones of God sanctify their hearts and their ears from the vain sayings that were uttered aforetime, and turn with their inmost souls to Him Who is the Day Spring of His Revelation, and to whatsoever things He hath manifested, such behavior would be regarded as highly meritorious in the sight of God….”
Gleanings, p. 172
To a Baha'i, What happened in the older religions does not matter anymore because the past has no bearing on the present age or the future. It is ancient history. Nor do we have any original scriptures written by a Manifestation of God, all we have is what men wrote about them decades or even hundreds of years later. How can this be accurately representing a revelation from God? It can't and it doesn't. One only needs to use logic to figure this out.
If you want to spend the rest of your life talking about the older religions and trying to make them all fit with the Baha'i Faith you can but they will never fit since they were never intended to fit.
Obviously, you never grasped the concept of progressive revelation, probably because you over-analyze it and try to make it fit with your conception of it, which is not what it is. The concept is really quite simple and all the extraneous details you talk about really don't matter.
Progressive revelation is a core teaching in the Bahá'í Faith that suggests that religious truth is revealed by God progressively and cyclically over time through a series of divine Messengers, and that the teachings are tailored to suit the needs of the time and place of their appearance.[1][2] Thus, the Bahá'í teachings recognize the divine origin of several world religions as different stages in the history of one religion, while believing that the revelation of Bahá'u'lláh is the most recent (though not the last—that there will never be a last), and therefore the most relevant to modern society.[1]
This teaching is an interaction of simpler teachings and their implications. The basic concept relates closely to Bahá'í views on God's essential unity, and the nature of prophets, termed Manifestations of God. It also ties into Bahá'í views of the purpose and nature of religion, laws, belief, culture and history. Hence revelation is seen as both progressive and continuous, and therefore never ceases.[3]