We need evidence that the text has content that in no way an ordinary person could know at the time. There is none for Baha'u'llah and his texts.
If the text had content that in no way an ordinary person could know at the time would you believe it was written by a Messenger of God?
Aside from what He wrote about God and spiritual matters, Baha’u’llah wrote about many practical matters. We know that Baha’u’llah did not have more than a rudimentary education so there is no explanation as to where He acquired the knowledge that He had.
Not only did Baha’u’llah know things He did not learn in any school, He also predicted many things that later came to pass. In this book, which can be read online, is a list of 30 specific things Baha’u’llah predicted that later came to pass:
The Challenge of Baha'u'llah
Believers are easily convinced, critical thinkers are not. We thinkers are the threshold claimants need to satisfy.
Some believers are easily convinced, other believers aren't. I know Baha'is who investigated the Baha'i Faith for many years before they became Baha'is. We are all different in how we come to believe and why.
Based on what facts? All we see is people very willing to believe in a religion as being convinced, not critical thinkers. Explain this capacity as a fact.
It is in the Writings of Baha'u'llah.
“I have perfected in every one of you My creation, so that the excellence of My handiwork may be fully revealed unto men. It follows, therefore, that every man hath been, and will continue to be, able of himself to appreciate the Beauty of God, the Glorified. Had he not been endowed with such a capacity, how could he be called to account for his failure?”
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p. 143
“He hath endowed every soul with the capacity to recognize the signs of God. How could He, otherwise, have fulfilled His testimony unto men, if ye be of them that ponder His Cause in their hearts. He will never deal unjustly with any one, neither will He task a soul beyond its power. He, verily, is the Compassionate, the All-Merciful.” Gleanings, pp. 105-106
It is not a fact since I cannot be proven. Religion is not factual, it is believed on faith, or not believed.
However, if you use logic and reason, you can see that it makes sense that we all have the capacity to believe in God, because if God had not given us all the capacity, how could God expect us to believe in Him?
There is no clear evidence of this. This seems to be something a believer tells themselves to avoid having doubts.
You mean there is no proof. Of course there is no proof, religious beliefs are not subject to proof. How could it ever be proven that there is a reward in heaven?
Religious beliefs do not prevent believers from having doubts.
But you are a person who needs a religion to believe in, not a critical thinker.
I do not NEED a religion to believe in, I believe in a religion, and I can think just as critically as any atheist, and maybe even more critically than some.
I was thinking critically when I picked up the book
Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and read it and realized it was the Words from God.
