I am tired of being accused of making claims. I am not making any claims because I have nothing to claim since I am a nobody.
The Messengers of God made claims in their scriptures. The main things they claimed were that:
1) They were sent by God
2) That God communicated to them
3) That God exists
I
believe their claims but I am making no claims since I have nothing to claim.
Atheists assert that I am making claims so they can say that I have the burden of proof, but I am making no claims just because I
believe the claims of the Messengers of God, so I have no burden of proof.
The burden of proof rests on the person making the claim. The Messengers of God made the claims so they were responsible to meet the burden of proof. I
believe that the true Messengers of God met their burden by providing evidence that supports their claims.
The
evidence that supports the claims of any alleged Messenger of God is as follows:
1) Their Person (their character, as demonstrated by the life they led)
2) Their Revelation (the history, which is what they accomplished on their mission from God)
3) Their Words (the words that were attributed to them in scriptures, or what they wrote)
Anyone who wants to know if an alleged Messenger of God is a true Messenger of God is responsible to do their own research and look at the
evidence that supports the claims of the alleged Messenger. I can point to where the evidence for Baha’u’llah resides but I am not responsible for doing other people’s homework.
According to my beliefs, God wants everyone to do their own homework and come to their own determinations because we are all responsible for our own beliefs. Baha’u’llah wrote that the faith of no man can be conditioned by anyone else because we are each accountable to God for our own beliefs on Judgment Day.
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 143
All this makes logical sense if people could only remove their bias and think about what I just said. Of course, it would require atheists to think differently than they have always thought about claims and evidence and see another point of view that they had never considered.
What an excellent advice.
Most believers don't do their duty as such.
They are as lazy as charity people who write $19.00 a month (67 cents a day) to organizations which collect billions of dollars to help 100 handicap people, 50 cancerous cases and similar amounts of people with birth defects and hard to cure diseases, a few abused dogs,a few survivors of a war that ended 70 years ago, etc.. Nobody makes the "sacrifice" to check where the huge amount of money goes in reality, they just send it.
I have made my own review of the Hebrew writings and found out that even the most famous rabies have also missed lots of the insight in those writings. I think that people who read and write modern Hebrew can't understand the biblical Hebrew as well.
Then, having an old Hebrew hard to be properly understood, and translations made by experts in Hebrew language but ignorant of the intent of the writers of the scriptures, the current believer is trapped in a chaotic situation when is about receiving the correct information.
---When the Bible writings in the original language is interpreted correctly, then one finds miracles that never occurred and events that happened but in a different way, not the way most translators agree with.
Yeshu (Jesus) was hated by the religious leaders not by his miracles but by his teachings, which were a more accurate interpretation of the ancient Hebrew language. The religious leaders were even surprised about how this man was capable to understand and interpret Hebrew without "their training".
---Believers must try to understand the Bible before following it.
This is a task that requires time. This is a synonymous of sacrifice. Like helping others is not just giving goods away but you being involved in a good action, like the good Samaritan did. A believer is part of the action, not just a bulk to be taken here and there without knowing what is going on.
---You ask and your God will provide.
One messianic assembly in the 1900s was originated when the leader of a protestant church on his knees, begged in his prayer for his God telling him His name. This was the beginning of a new era. In other places appeared messianic churches, some have survived, others have gave birth to new ones, others have disappeared. The preacher of this story received wisdom and he was capable to interpret the scriptures like no one else in his times.
Same inspiration given to prophets, believers can also receive it when they ask for it, when they look for it.
----The claims of former prophets, saying they announce the message of their God, are valid when their words go in accord to the scriptures.
The duty of a believer is to review what he has heard, read and see in their assemblies and outside of them.
In our current society, when leaders of all kind give a message, no matter how humanitarian the given message might appears to be, for the believer the message must go in accord to the essence of the biblical reading.
It's hard to find a fully accurate interpretation of the scriptures, but the essence of the message is found in the agreement between texts, not from comparing verses alone but from comparing texts.
When doing so, even when contradictions might be found, the essence of the message is perceptible, and those claims can be finally judged by the believer as true or false.
