joelr
Well-Known Member
His scripture I find offensive it's so poorly written and mainly just praising god over and over.How many supposed prophets have said, "The Gods have spoken!" And the people are pretty much forced to believe and obey. I think there is evidence of that in ancient times. Lots of different Gods, lots of rules and rituals that the prophet claimed came from some God.
It worked in the past. But how is Baha'u'llah getting away with it in modern times? Now if he just claimed to be a philosopher or something and said that all people are one and should all work to together for a peaceful and united world, who would have listened or even cared? And I'm sure there's plenty of wise men that laid out plans on what people could do to make the world better. But once a guy claims that his message came from a divine revelation, everything changes.
The prophet of the Ahmaddiya. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, or even Joseph Smith were about the same time as Baha'u'llah and have more members than Baha'u'llah. But Baha'is believe one of them is a fake and the other not even a minor prophet. Yet, people believe them and follow them. It still works. Anybody that claims God sent them, will get a following. I don't believe Joseph Smith claims are for real. And I doubt Mirza Ghulam Ahmad also. But what about Baha'u'llah? I think he's quite a bit more believable, but he still has things I don't believe are true.
So, what am I supposed to do? Ignore those things? I can't do it. But I can see why some people do buy into it. But, just like literal-believing Christians, a true Baha'i has committed themselves to believing everything that Baha'u'llah has said and everything the Baha'i Faith says. And all that does is cause them to have to defend their Baha'i beliefs as true, because they came from some God.... no matter how difficult it might be to defend or how improbable it might be that it is true.
And the number one belief that they can't prove but must defend is that their guy is a true prophet from the one true God. What he said is meaningless if that claim isn't true. Their best defense then becomes... since his teachings are meaningful, then, therefore, he must be from God. Yeah, maybe. But maybe not. Like I said, for me there are some things that I don't believe are true. If it's a "divine" revelation, it has to be and better be all true.
But the prophecies are at best vague and at worst literally wrong. I went through the book with 27 prophecies picked out and posted some of the big mistakes.
But even worse is the author of the book has to make long apologetics about the prophecies to justify making them work and the real clincher is he's picking these out of scripture. Which means he is finding the best possible things he can try to make into justified prophecies.
In one which is about physics and the "ether" he actually has to say Bahai is communicating in this weird language.
He said the ether is real and it turned out it isn't so in response the author of the book on prophecies has to say:
"I From the standpoint of classical physics, this was rank heresy. Although 'Abdu'1-Baha was using con-I ventional terminology, “"
So, while admitting the statement about physics is wrong when talking about physics, he somehow says it's still correct because he's using "con-I-ventional terminology", and in that jibberish, guess what, he's correct!! Wow, what an amazing hit, totally not BS at all! Thanks apologist for clearing that up.
Does he ever use "con-I-ventional terminology" again and what evidence does he have he's using it? Hey, too many questions, just buy the story. If a prophecy is wrong you just call it "con-I-ventional terminology" and it becomes correct.